Dr. Rinke’s main interests are genomics, ecology, and phylogeny of uncultured microbes. He applies single-cell genomics, the separation and sequencing of single bacterial and archaeal cells, and metagenomics, the direct sequencing of environmental samples. Both methods are perfectly suited to explore uncultured microbes, also know as microbial dark matter. Dr. Rinke is a member of the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) team: http://gtdb.ecogenomic.org Recent publications: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=vvJ25h0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao