Sara Claudia Diana

The paper investigates microbial diversity and geochemistry in shallow-water hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of Naples, finding that fluid chemistry shaped microbial communities and revealing two new vent sites.

The paper provides a standardized fieldwork handbook and open tools for microbial sampling, sequencing, and culturing at biobank scale.

The paper introduces MAGUS, a toolkit for analyzing metagenomic data from eukaryote-dominated symbiotic communities, and demonstrates its ability to resolve multiple genomes and gene catalogs from coral and hydrozoan samples.