Giulia Fiorito

Giulia Fiorito

Giulia Fiorito

Student / Programme Doctorate at D-USYS

ETH Zürich

Professur für Umweltmikrobiologie

CHN G 14

Universitätstrasse 16

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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Research area

My research focuses on understanding microbial communities that influence methane cycling in peatlands, which are the largest carbon-storage ecosystems on Earth and host a wide range of microorganisms involved in anaerobic C1 cycling. 
Since anthropogenic activities and climate change are threatening these ecosystems, potentially disrupting the functions governed by their microbial communities, I aim to illuminate them and identify ecDNA elements that drive microbial methane cycling through cultivation and metagenomic techniques.