Projects
Here are some of the projects I’ve worked on.
Microbiome Dashboard
A Shiny dashboard to explore diversity, ordination, and taxa distribution from metabarcoding data.
Introduction to Metabarcoding
A beginner-friendly guide to processing metabarcoding datasets on high-performance computing systems.
Writing using Markdown and Zotero
A workflow to write and cite scientific articles using Markdown with Zotero integration for reference management
Beginners guide to Git and GitHub
A quick start guide to Git and GitHub, including step-by-step instructions to integrate version control into RStudio.
Publications
- Thomas, S. P., Shanmuganathan, B., Krishnan, S., Goswami, K., Dev, M., Jaiswal, M. K., Kumaresan, A., & Sadasivam, S. K. (2018). Metabarcoding of PalEnDNA as an efficient tool to recover ancient bacterial diversity. Geomicrobiology Journal, 35(9), 798–803. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2018.1474507
- Thomas, S. P., Shanmuganathan, B., Jaiswal, M. K., Kumaresan, A., & Sadasivam, S. K. (2019). Legacy of a Pleistocene bacterial community: Patterns in community dynamics through changing ecosystems. Microbiological Research, 226, 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2019.06.001
- Machado‑Silva, F., Weintraub, M., Ward, N. D., Doro, K. O., Regier, P. J., Ehosioke, S., Thomas, S. P., Peixoto, R. B., … Myers‑Pigg, A. N. (2023). Groundwater redox dynamics across the terrestrial‑aquatic interface of Lake Erie coastal ecosystems. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.12.544684
- Ehosioke, S. Adebayo, M. B., Bailey, V. L., Peixoto, R. B., Emmanuel, E. D., Machado‑Silva, F., Regier, P. J., Spanbauer, T., Thomas, S. P., Ward, N. D., Weintraub, M. N., & Doro, K. O. (2024). Geophysical methods reveal the soil architecture and subsurface stratigraphic heterogeneities across land‑lake interfaces along Lake Erie. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 24, 2215–2236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-024-03787-w
- Kamil, D., Prameeladevi, T., Ganesh, S., Prabhakaran, N., Nareshkumar, R., & Thomas, S. P. (2017). Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles by entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana and their bioefficacy against mustard aphid (Lipaphis erysimi Kalt.). Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 55(8), 555–561. ResearchGate link