Bacterial community dynamics at SPOTS (San Pedro Ocean Time Series) and the open ocean (Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans) using ARISA (Automated rRNA Intergenic Spacer Analysis) and 16S sequencing
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic deep biosphere analysis using 454 sequencing at SPOTS
Application of ARISA to non-eubacterial groups (ex. Crenarchaeota)
Obtaining accurate viral and bacterial estimates in the bottle
Technical optimization of ARISA and TRFLP with a focus on binning and improving fragment analysis resolution and efficiency
Adaptation of the NAST algorithim for 16S-ITS-23S alignments
Streamling of BLAST queries for simplified large scale bioinformatic analyses
Rohan Sachdeva 
