VISION
Genome sequences serve as both the foundation for life activities and the records of the evolutionary histories of life. Transcriptomes contain comprehensive information about the active genes within genomes, while metagenomes provide insights into the ecology of environmental microbes. By employing bioinformatic approaches, we analyze these data to uncover how life adapts to environmental changes, the types of interactions between organisms and their environment that drive ecosystem dynamics, and how life and Earth have intertwined throughout their long history.
This section is one of the four sections of the Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics (CESD). The CESD was established in 2010 following the merger of Ocean Research Institute and Center for Climate System Research into the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute.