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Microbial Ecology

microbial ecology

Microbes play many vital roles in the oceans. They are crucial in the transformation and cycling of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur; they are fundamental components of marine food webs, and although small, their activities affect global biogeochemical cycles and help regulate the global climate. Using cutting-edge technologies, faculty in the department study the diversity, structure, and function of microbial communities; how microbes affect the transformations and cycling of elements such as nitrogen and sulfur; and the ecological interactions between viruses, bacteria, and phytoplankton. 

Personnel

Research in the Bik Lab is intensely interdisciplinary, using high-throughput sequencing and diverse –Omics approaches to explore broad patterns in marine microbes (biodiversity and phylogeography, functional roles for microbial taxa, and the relationship between species and environmental parameters), with an emphasis on…

Activities in the Joye Research Group aim to discover, document, resolve, and understand the complex interactions that drive elemental cycling in coastal and open ocean environments across the globe. Our purpose is to elucidate feedbacks between environmental, microbiological, and biogeochemical dynamics. Our research examines the effects of…

Moran lab research focuses on how marine bacteria process and transform organic carbon and sulfur, and how interactions between bacteria and phytoplankton affect these transformations, including the formation of climate-relevant gases. Our research leverages tools from molecular microbial ecology and ecological genomics, in both laboratory…

My research group focuses on coastal ecosystem ecology. I seek to develop an integrated understanding of ecological and biogeochemical processes in order to refine the role of estuaries and wetlands in the global carbon cycle and predict the likelihood of recovery from human disturbances. My group uses innovative geochemical tracer approaches,…

Research Emphasis:

Yager's interdisciplinary research approach includes oceanography, marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Her work concentrates on the interactions between climate and marine ecosystems, and includes both fieldwork and modeling. Recent projects include investigating…

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