About Us

• Aquatic microbiology, phycology, & ecology
• Proteogenomic integration with stable isotope tracing

• Aquatic microbial ecology & biogeochemistry
• Algae–bacteria culturing & characterization
• Chip-SIP technology development

• Geochemistry, microanalysis, & isotopic analyses
• High resolution imaging

• Advanced scientific computing
• In silico models of cellular processes at genome scale
• Predictive multi-objective models of metabolism in communities

• Root–rhizosphere transcriptomics
• Network analysis
• Stable Isotope Probing

• Environmental microbial ecology
• Isotope tracing/NanoSIMS & plant–microbe interactions

• Bioinformatics
• Computational biologist
• Meta-‘omics analysis & systems biology of communities

• Plant–microbial interactions
• Bioinformatics & computational biology

• Metabolomics
• Bioinformatics
• Plant-microbe interactions

• Algae–bacteria culturing
• Growth analyses using bulk and single-cell approaches

• Aquatic microbial and viral ecology
• Algal-bacterial interactions
• Trace metals

• Microbial ecology
• Plant-microbe interaction
• Soil biogeochemistry

• Cryo-NanoSIMS workflows
• High-resolution mass spectrometry
• Laser spectroscopy
• Computational chemistry

• Microbial community ecology
• Microbe-microbe interactions
• Bioinformatics

• Laboratory manager
• Molecular & microbial techniques

• Electron Microscopy
• Sample preparation, embedding, & sectioning

• Algal culturing
• Microbial culturing
• Outdoor algal management

• Soil microbial ecology
• Mycorrhizal fungi
• Molecular techniques

• Plant–fungal interactions
• Molecular techniques
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi culturing

• Algal-bacterial interactions
• Synthetic biology

• Chlamydomonas biology, bioenergetics, & molecular genetics
• Physiology of trace metals and elements in Chlamydomonas
• Bacterial impact on expression of the algal genome

• Geobiology
• Microbial ecology
• Algal-bacterial interactions

• Ecology and evolution of plant–microbe interactions
• Effects of symbiotic fungi on grass physiology
• Community and ecosystem drivers and impacts of microbiomes

Rachel Hammer, Graduate Student

• Ecology and evolution of plant-microbe interactions
• Effects of symbiotic fungi on grass physiology
• Community and ecosystem drivers and impacts of microbiomes

• Organic Biogeochemistry
• Trace metal cycling

• Trace metal cycling

• Plant-fungal trace metal cycling

• Bioimaging
• Single cell analyses
• Membrane imaging

• Algae membrane imaging

• Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
• Phytoplankton Ecophysiology

• Algal-bacterial VOCs

• VOCs and grazing