Olivia Ahern
School: University of Rhode Island
Degree: Ph.D., Biological Oceanography
Advisor: Tatiana Rynearson
Expected completion date: 2018
Research: My research explores the microscale host-microbe interactions between a cosmopolitan marine diatom, Thalassiosira rotula, and its associated bacterial assemblage. I am using physiological experiments and molecular techniques in order to characterize ecological interactions.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221. 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.