Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Porazinska Lab
Led by Dorota Porazinska · Entomology and Nematology
What we study
The lab studies how nematodes and soil microbes interact in ecosystems, using DNA sequencing and fieldwork in alpine and polar regions. They explore how environmental changes affect biodiversity and soil health.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Wet lab
- Worms (C. elegans)
- Bacteria & microbes
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Testing the theory of community assembly
They study how soil communities form and function in different environments, using fieldwork and DNA sequencing.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Gopher tortoise influence on soil biodiversity is constrained by historical land use
2026 · Biodiversity and Conservation
Examines whether gopher tortoises boost soil biodiversity in longleaf pine ecosystems.
- Effects of Nutrient Limitation on Antarctic Microbial Community Diversity, Composition, and Interactions: A Cryoconite Microcosm Study
2026 · Microorganisms
Studies how nutrient additions affect microbial diversity in Antarctic cryoconite holes.
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- Limited impact of competitive interactions on nematode community assembly across habitat types
2025
- Effect of climate history on the genetic structure of an Antarctic soil nematode
2025 · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Analyzes DNA from Antarctic nematodes to see how climate changes affect their genetics.
- The nature of microbial diversity and assembly in the Nebraska Sandhills depends on organismal identity and habitat type
2024 · Community Ecology
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