Engineering Lab Service, US

The Garcia-Pichel Lab, located in the Biodesign Building B of Arizona State University's Tempe Campus, is dedicated to studying the nature, evolution, role, adaptations, and effects of microbes and the communities they build in various natural habitats. Their interdisciplinary approach combines traditional ecological and microbiological techniques with molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, and bioinformatics to explore topics such as soil microbial ecology, microbial biosignatures, hypersaline mats, and biocrusts restoration. With a primary focus on cyanobacteria, the lab also investigates the interactions between cyanobacteria and other microbes through mutualisms or pathogenesis. Their research aims to contribute to fields such as restoration of degraded soils, predicting the effects of climate change on microbial processes, improving crop production, and interpreting ecosystems from Earth's distant past.Generated from the website