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Mantas Sereika is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Section of Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Metagenomics at the Department of Chemistry and Life Sciences within the Faculty of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on advancing metagenomic techniques to better understand microbial communities in various environments.
His primary research interests include environmental microbiology, microbial metagenomics, microbial genome analysis, and microbial diversity across different ecosystems. Sereika specializes in using long-read sequencing technologies to recover complete microbial genomes from complex environmental samples, particularly focusing on soil and wastewater treatment systems.
His publication record shows a strong focus on expanding our understanding of microbial diversity through advanced genomic techniques. Recent work has centered on genome-resolved metagenomics, with applications in environmental monitoring, wastewater treatment, and the creation of comprehensive microbiome atlases like the Microflora Danica project that documents Danish environmental microbiomes.
Sereika is actively involved in two major research projects: DarkScience (funded by The Villum Foundation), which aims to illuminate microbial dark matter through data science approaches, and Microflora Danica: The Microbiome of Denmark (funded by Poul Due Jensens Fond), a comprehensive study of Danish environmental microbiomes running from 2019-2025.
He has developed the mmlong2-lite workflow for microbial genome recovery with long-read sequencing data, demonstrating his expertise in bioinformatics tools development for metagenomic analysis. His work has contributed to understanding microbial communities in wastewater treatment plants, cable bacteria ecosystems, and terrestrial habitats across Denmark.
