Lab members

Group leader

Eric Capo
Eric Capo
Assistant Professor, Umeå University
Aquatic microbial ecologist with expertise in molecular (paleo)ecology.
Contact: eric.capo@umu.se

Postdoctoral researchers

Corentin
Corentin Fournier
Postdoctoral Researcher
Corentin Fournier is a postdoc in Capo lab co-supervised by Eric Libby (IceLab). His work aims to apply microbial metabolic models into environmental genomics data to better understand biogeochemical interactions in past and modern environments, with a primary focus on Baltic Sea and Swedish West Coast fjords.
Contact: corentin.fournier@umu.se
Fluvio
Flúvio Modolon
Postdoctoral Researcher
Flúvio focus is a post-doc in David Wardle investigating how soil microbial communities shape and respond to ecological processes across a chronosequence syst i.e., changes in organic matter stocks, nutrient fluxes, decomposition, and experimentally induced loss of plant diversity.
Contact: fluvio.modolon@umu.se
Isabel
Isabel Sanz-Sáez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Isabel Sanz-Sáez is a postdoc in Erik Björns group at the Chemistry Department of the Umeå University. Her research focus on exploring the intricate relationships between microbes and environmental pollutants, including both legacy and emerging contaminants.
Contact: isabel.sanz@umu.se
Dongna
Dongna Yan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dongna Yan is a postdoc working in Zhisheng An group at the Institute of Earth Environment (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, Shaanxi). Her current research focus on the study of past ecological environmental changes recoded by sedDNA and geochemical indicators.
Contact: yandn@ieecas.cn
Li
Li Zhao
Postdoctoral Researcher
Li Zhao is a post-doc working in the field of marine microbial ecology in the group of Agneta Andersson, focusing on how dissolved organic matter (DOM) influences microbial community function, particularly in the context of climate change.
Contact: li.zhao@umu.se

PhD students

Júlia
Júlia Dordal Soriano
PhD Student
Júlia Dordal Soriano is a PhD student from Andrea Garcia Bravo at the ICM-CSIC (Barcelona). Her current research focuses on the study of microbial processes and environmental factors that control mercury transformations in the global ocean.
Contact: julia.dordal.18@gmail.com
Nicola
Nicola Gambardella
PhD Student
Nicola Gambardella is a PhD student from Catarina Magalhães group at "LaCaixa" INPhINIT fellowship program at CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal) working on prokaryotic communities involved in permafrost N and Hg cycling with molecular and bioinformatic approaches.
Contact: ngambardella@ciimar.up.pt
Sébastien
Sébastien Leveque
PhD Student
Sébastien Leveque is a PhD student from Nick Kamenos group investigating the acclimation and adaptation of the coral holobiont. He mainly focus on the symbiotic community composition within coral reefs using molecular ecology tools.
Contact: sebastien.leveque@umu.se
Yangzheng
Yangzheng Liu
PhD Student
Yangzheng Liu is a visiting PhD student in Changwei Lü´s group at the Inner Mongolia University (China). His research focuses on lake environmental change and paleoecological reconstruction, integrating sedDNA and geochemical proxies to resolve coupled climate–human drivers at centennial–millennial scales.
Anton
Anton Sandström
PhD Student
Anton Sandström is a PhD student from Per Stenberg group exploring the ecosystems of the Skåne region using an unique eDNA sets from air filters to study agricultural pathogens.
Contact: anton.sandstrom01@umu.se
Meifang
Meifang Zhong
PhD Student
Meifang Zhong is a PhD student working on microbial metabolisms of deoxygenated marine systems with molecular (paleo)ecology approaches (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, MAGs).
Contact: meifang.zhong@umu.se

Undergraduate students

Manuela
Manuela Grane
Master Student
Manuela Grane is a Master student studying the reliability of metabarcoding to assess the composition of lake fish communities from drone-sampled water samples in Abisko region.

Others

Drones
Drones Team
Research Equipment
Dragonfly, Firefly and Butterfly are SwellPro FD3 waterproof drones used for environmental monitoring. They dedicate their lives to skimming the surface of lakes, collecting water samples for eDNA analysis.
Totoro
Totoro
Computing Server
Totoro is a T550 server equipped with 140 GB of RAM, 16 threads, and a NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU. Its life mission is to support the Capo lab by processing metabarcoding data, constructing phylogenetic trees, and handling all the quick, everyday bioinformatics tasks.

Alumni


Main collaborators