Henk Bolhuis

Henk Bolhuis currently works at the department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Henk is specialized in the molecular ecology and evolution of natural and artificial marine and extreme microbial communities. Specific topics are Halophilic Archaea, and Cyanobacteria dominated coastal microbial mats. The research includes cultivation of minimal and synthetic communities, molecular analysis (metagenomics, transcriptomics, amplicon sequencing) and bioinformatics. A current project is 'Re-isolation of Haloquadratum walsbyi from diverse hypersaline ecosystems and salt crystals for genomic comparison .'