SUPR
Assessing the impact of chemical mixtures on microbial community structure and function along the Swedish Coast
Dnr:

NAISS 2025/22-1066

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Nicolai Laufer

Affiliation:

Göteborgs universitet

Start Date:

2025-08-13

End Date:

2026-03-01

Primary Classification:

10502: Environmental Sciences (Social aspects at 50909 and agricultural at 40504)

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Allocation

Abstract

The project aims to assess the impact of chemical mixtures and other environmental variables (such as temperature, salinity and nutrients) on microbial biodiversity as well as structural and functional composition. The resources will be used to analyze 16S rRNA metabarcoding raw data (and possibly metagenome data) obtained from environmental DNA samples during a research cruise along the Swedish West and East coast. The project will: i) evaluate how microbial alpha- and beta-diversity changes along the Swedish coast as well as in dependency of land-use types, ii) identify the environmental parameters that explain alterations in community structure, and iii) qualitatively and quantitatively assess the consequences of antimicrobial stress on microbial community function.