Marjan Ghotbi

This study tracks seasonal microbial shifts in a seaweed holobiont over three years, revealing predictable functional changes and core taxa.

The paper validates HiMEx, a microvolume DNA extraction method, showing it captures comparable microbial community data and more viral genomes than conventional methods at lower cost.

This paper introduces DspikeIn, a tool for absolute abundance quantification in microbiomes, showing it improves resolution and reduces false discoveries compared to relative abundance methods.

The paper investigates how an invasive seaweed host influences its microbial biofilm compared to native hosts, finding it exerts greater influence and promiscuity in microbial associations.