Nuttapon (Nat) Pombubpa is currently a lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. My lab current research interests include dryland and biological soil crust microbial diversity, desert fungal diversity, and microbiome research. We used next generation amplicon sequencing, metagenomic, metabolomics, proteomics, and culturing techniques to explore and answer questions about dryland microbial community.