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Jill focuses on geomicrobiology and environmental microbiology where her group studies how microorganisms shape, and are shaped by, their natural environments. The research group studies microbial communities, primarily using cultivation-independent approaches such as genomics (metagenomics) and community proteomics. They work on microbial dissolution and precipitation of minerals, the structure, properties, and reactivity of nanoparticles (many of which are formed by microorganisms), microbial ecology, and microbial evolution. Their current projects are tied to location studies in aquatic environments at:

1) Iron Mountain, California
2) Angelo Reserve, California
3) Rifle and East River sites, Colorado
4) Crystal Geyser, Utah