URBAN
URban Biodiversity AssessmeNts
This passion project focuses on another important but less explored landscape in the country: the urban environment. Specifically using the combination of functional, physiological, and species diversity to create policy formulations on improving the quality of urban spaces in the country.
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PROJECT 1: PROBE
PROspecting Biodiversity through Endophytes
This project searches, isolates, and cultivates bacterial and fungal endophytes that are harboring the tissues inside the less explored plant systems bryophytes i.e. mosses and their allies such as liverworts and hornworts
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Members - Mangrove Endophytes
SHEENA V. BORJAL
Project Leader​​​​​​​
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CHRISTIAN ELMARC O. BAUTISTA
Project Staff
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RAMON CARLO B. BANZUELA
Microbes
FRANCISCO G. ISIDRO III
Project Staff
JEFFREY P. ROMERO
Collaborator
Members - Bryoendophytes
AKIRA T. KOMODA
Project Leader​​​​​​​
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ALLAN MIGUEL G. TOMIMBANG
Project Staff
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SHEENA V. BORJAL
Microbes
PRINCE NUR HAKEEM N. BUISAN
Project Staff
PROJECT 2: PRIME
PRotIst as Microbial models in Ecology
This project uses culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches, such as novel metagenomics, to validate macroecological and biogeographical theories in the environment using the less explored Protist groups in the country.​
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Members
CHRISTON JAIRUS M. RACOMA
Project Leader
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ALLAN MIGUEL G. TOMIMBANG
Project Staff
NIKKI HEHERSON A. DAGAMAC
Consultant
CHRISTIAN ELMARC BAUTISTA
Collaborator
PRINCE NUR HAKEEM N. BUISAN
Collaborator
JEFFREY P. ROMERO
​Collaborator
PROJECT 3: AMBISYON
PRotIst as Microbial models in Ecology
This project propels the use of eDNA and high throughput sequencing analysis coupled with the traditional identification of microbial species to divulge the hidden diversity of microbial systems on disturbed natural ecosystems in the local setting, brought by salinity and fire activities.
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Members
LEILA L. TOMACAS
Project Leader
CHRISTON JAIRUS M. RACOMA
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Contact us
Laboratory 11, 4th Floor, Main Building, University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd, Sampaloc, Manila, 1008 Metro Manila