SCIENTIFIC THEME: THE PROJECT WILL REVEAL UNDESCRIBED MICROBES WHICH ARE OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL VALUE

The leader of the scientific theme Hovik Panosyan noted that the main goal of the project is to use methods of growing, and growing independent (molecular) method in studying the phylogenetic and functional diversity of Archaea in some geothermal sources of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, to isolate and identify the new types of Archaea.

Referring to the results Hovik Panosyan said that they can significantly contribute to solution of fundamental problems in microbes ecology, and to evolutional development of microbiology processes as well as to assessment and prediction of Archaea geochemical activity in natural ecosystems with extremal physical and chemical conditions.