Areas Thomas Niederberger is Knowledgeable in:
Environmental Microbiology
Isolation and characterization of novel microbes
Metagenomics/pyrosequencing pipelines
Thomas Niederberger's Problem Solving Skills:
- Environmental Microbiology (molecular and culturing) and complete characterization of novel microbes
Thomas Niederberger's Problem Solving Experience:
- Develop isolation methods to culture novel microbes.
Develop and optimize/troubleshoot novel molecular methods to detect and quantify microbes in the natural environment (e.g. qPCR, FISH, PCR-based fingerprinting methods, microarray, probing, pyrosequencing etc..)