Koty Sharp, PhD
RI-INBRE Investigator
Roger Williams University
Associate Professor, Biology and Marine Biology
Dr. Koty Sharp received her B.A. in Biology at Mount Holyoke College and her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego in 2006. She was a Marine Science Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, FL in 2006-2008 and a Goelet Postdoctoral Fellow at Ocean Genome Legacy (New England Biolabs) in Ipswich, MA from 2008-2011. From 2011-2015, Dr. Sharp was on the faculty at Eckerd College in Biology and Marine Science. She is now an Associate Professor in Roger Williams University’s (RWU) Biology & Marine Biology faculty, where she is a part of the RWU Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED). Dr. Sharp was born and raised in coastal Delaware, but she has lived in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Her research has taken her to The Republic of Palau, Panama, Belize, California, and the Florida Keys. When she is not delivering research-rich coursework to her RWU undergraduates or mentoring her research team in the lab, she is most likely swimming, kayaking, gardening, or playing with her husband and two sons.