Pavlo Hrab

2023 - Present

Built a Nextflow pipeline to clean and dereplicate 19,720 Acidobacteriota MAGs from public data, and mined the result for biosynthetic gene clusters across every biome the phylum occupies.

2022 - Present

Planned and led a year-long isolation study of sponge-associated bacteria. Used metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to predict what the uncultured lineages needed, designed the media from those predictions, and ran the cultivation myself.

2024 - Present

Analysed 488 marine Acidobacteriota genomes across 16 families to separate genuine host adaptation from shared ancestry, using Pfam-based feature matrices, phylogenomics and machine learning.