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.
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.