Olivia Ahern
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.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2022). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.