The Meredith Research Group is currently seeking an undergraduate student(s) from the 2024 UofA Undergraduate Biology Research Program.  We will use a mass spectrometer and soil incubations to measure how abiotic and biotic soil factors changes with the addition of specific VOC with time. We expect to identify VOC-consuming microbes and try to elucidate how VOC stabilizes carbon in soils. Some of the questions that we will ask will be: i) How microbial communities changes in diversity and abundance with specific VOC addition? ii) Identify VOC- consuming microbes to identify consumption and production of VOCs. Over Summer 2024 (and potentially into Fall) the student will help with volatilome, metagenome, transcriptome,…