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Petra Hribovšek

Position

Postdoctoral fellow

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in microbial ecology at the Center for Deep Sea Research at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ (BIO). My research involves studying how microbes inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents interact with the environment, their diversity, metabolism, and evolution. I combine metagenomics and microscopy.
Research
  • Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal vents microbial ecology
  • Iron-oxidizing bacteria
  • Anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea and syntrophic partners
  • Genome-resolved metagenomics and microscopy techniques

Interested in sustainable practices, environmental impacts, policy, community engagement, coordination and microbiology literacy of the public.

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A member of the 

I'm also a part of the organizing committee for , a community of deep-sea scientists and professionals working to increase collaboration and knowledge-sharing across institutes.

Outreach

Watch our recording of the at Loki’s castle hydrothermal vent field in the Arctic, 2300 meters below sea level – with live commentary from scientists! (Centre for Deep Sea Research)

Watch how we sample and study microbes living on black smoker chimneys at FÃ¥vne hydrothermal vent field (my doctoral thesis work) - in and .

One example of outreach activites for the general public was OPPLEV Marineholmen in April 2022, where we prepared a stand with an interactive simulation of deep sea ROV-sampling (see blogpost ).

Teaching

2024 – *          BIO214 General Microbiology

2023 – *         

2019 – 2022  

Publications
Moving image/film
Conference poster
Lecture
Master’s thesis
Radio or TV participation
Conference lecture
Academic article
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Other presentation

Projects

PhD project: Ecology and genomic diversity of iron-oxidizing bacteria at Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Lessons from genome-resolved metagenomics and microscopy

In connection with project