Soma Sardar Barawi

PhD Student

Education

  • Interdisciplinary PhD student (Started Sep. 2024)
  • BSc (Biology), University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq

Bio

I’m interested in how lateral gene transfer reshapes microbial genomes and facilitates adaptation in marine environments, and what this means for broader ecological processes. Currently, I’m focused on the acquisition and evolutionary history of nitrogen-fixing genes in marine non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs from the family Oceanospirillaceae.