My overarching research interest is to understand the evolutionary and functional aspects of parasitic interactions among aquatic microbes and more specifically with a multipartite perspective where more than two parties are involved in the interaction. We combine high throughput methods such as MetaHiC, single cell analyses based on semi-permeable cells, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics analyses of natural samples and model systems in culture to resolve the basis of these interactions.

Maliheh Mehrshad
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Key Publications
Diel Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics Under Contrasting Light Regimes
Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2025
The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses
2025
Vitamin B12 release through bacteriophage-mediated cell lysis of the marine bacterium Sulfitobacter sp. M39
ISME Communications, 2025
Niche-aware metagenomic screening for enzyme methioninase illuminates its contribution to metabolic syntrophy
2024