Business trip report, USA, Strunecký

From April 22 to June 23, 2024, I was a guest at the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago, in Woods Hole. The staff at the Ecosystems Center provided me with extensive support in two key research areas. The first involved an introduction to next-generation sequencing, including bioinformatic data analysis. Additionally, we focused on measuring microbial nitrogen metabolism. The nitrogen cycle mediated by bacteria was intensively discussed with local microbiology experts.

The experience and workflows gained provided new insights into the nitrogen cycle in aquaculture, particularly in the areas of nitrification, anammox, and comammox processes, significantly contributing to ongoing projects and supporting the preparation of new project proposals at FROV JU.