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Mina Bizic is the newly appointed professor and head of the Department of Environmental Microbiomics at TU Berlin since July 1, 2024. Her research focuses on the interactions of microorganisms with their biotic and abiotic environments, spanning both natural and technical systems. Her work integrates classical microbiological methods such as cultivation and microscopy with metagenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic approaches, along with corresponding bioinformatics tools. A central research focus of her department is methane production via unconventional pathways in oxic aquatic habitats, particularly through algae and cyanobacteria, emphasizing the balance between photosynthetic carbon fixation and methane release in the context of global greenhouse gas balances. Additionally, her research explores carbon storage in lakes and oceans, approaches to integrate localized variability into global models, pollutant degradation by microorganisms, evolution and functionality of giant bacteria, extreme habitats, and the microbiology of caves.
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