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Young Song
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Young Song is a postdoctoral research associate with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. Song’s research is focused on integrating metagenomics and other omics approaches to investigate the diversity of soil microbes and their metabolic potentials pertaining to carbon-cycling processes. His other duties include developing methods for analyzing and visualizing metagenomics data associated with the Molecular Observation Network (MONet) and other user projects.

Research Interests

  • Microbial phylogenetics and genomics
  • Microbial metabolism
  • Data visualization

Education

  • PhD in microbiology, University of Queensland
  • MSc in bioinformatics, University of British Columbia
  • BS in biology with a minor in computer science, University of Waterloo

Affiliations and Professional Service

  • American Society of Microbiology, 2024–present
  • Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, 2021–2023

Publications

2023

Song, Y. C., S. I. Holland, M. Lee, G. Chen, F. E. Löffler, M. J. Manefield, P. Hugenholtz, and U. Kappler. 2023. “A Comparative Genome Analysis of the Bacillota (Firmicutes) Class Dehalobacteriia.” Microbial Genomics 9 (6): 001039. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001039.

Vega-Coffre, M. V., W. Williams, Y. C. Song, S. Schmidt, and P. G. Dennis. 2023. “Effects of Grazing and Fire Management on Rangeland Soil and Biocrust Microbiomes.” Ecological Indicators 148: 110094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110094.

2012

Orsi, W., Y. C. Song, S. Hallam, and V. Edgcomb. 2012. “Effect of Oxygen Minimum Zone Formation on Communities of Marine Protists.” The ISME Journal 6 (8): 1586–1601. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.7.