Maggie C.Y. Lau Associate Research Scholar in Princeton University. Research interests Environmental -omics; molecular microbial ecology and evolution; extremophiles; aerobiology; physiology and adaptation to environmental stress in hot spring, deep continental subsurface, deep ocean, Arctic and Antarctica. She was suppored by Deep Life Community (DLC) pilot project program-Deep Carbon Observatory Project: Proteome profiling to delineate subsurface microbial CH4-cycling pathways.