Viviana Freire-Zapata

This study shows microbial resilience in arid soils arises from dynamic network reorganization and stochastic processes, with Thermoproteota playing a key keystone role in nitrogen cycling.

The paper integrates soil metagenomes and metabolomes across the US to show microbial potential for decomposing recalcitrant carbon compounds, revealing metabolic specialization among bacterial and archaeal taxa.

MetaboDirect is an open-source pipeline for processing FTICR-MS metabolomics data, offering automated analysis, visualization, and biochemical network generation.