Top Research Topics in Environmental Microbiology

Microbial ecology

Until now it is very poorly explored. Many things are still not answered. Therefore, in this field we can get many interesting topics for doing research. Some of them are:

1. Improving personalized medicine using human microbiome studies.
2. Utilizing ecological principles for searching novel antibiotics and other alternatives.
3. Principle determinants of waterborne infection outbreaks and the best method to control these.
4. Influence of climate on microbial species distribution.
5. Effects of agrochemicals on microbial communities.
6. Enhancing food production by harnessing microbial communities.
7. Integration of microbial communities into global change.
8. Effect of human activities on sub-surface microbiomes.
9. Effect of urbanization on environmental microbial population.
10. Resistance of functional microbial groups to disturbances caused by microbes.
11. Microbial functions conservation across various spatial and temporal scales.
12. Microbial community’s functional redundancy.

Microbial diversity

This is a vast area for exploring. Although several research is going on in this area but still majority is underexplored and thus can be an interesting field for making some novel discoveries. Some of the interesting topics on microbial diversity are:

1. How to analyze the microbial diversity data contained V4 and V6 of microbial 16S rRNA gene?
2. Marine Parasites as a Thing and as a Feature in the Unruly of Hostile Species in Marine Ecosystems.
3. Marine Parasites of various water ecosystem.

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