Degree: 
MS, Biological Oceanography
Advisor: Tatiana Rynearson
Completion date: Spring 2016
Research: I explore microscale microbial interactions and ecological relationships between a species of cosmopolitan marine diatom – Thalassiosira rotula – and its associated heterotrophic bacterial assemblage using molecular barcoding techniques, population genetics, and co-growth experiments.
RI NSF EPSCoR is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Cooperative Agreements #OIA-2433276 and in part by the RI Commerce Corporation via the Science and Technology Advisory Committee [STAC]. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the RI Commerce Corporation, STAC, our partners or our collaborators.