Faculty Members in Microbial Diversity
| Name | Research abstract |
|---|---|
| Naomi Fast |
Genome evolution, spliceosomal intron evolution, parasitic adaptation - focusing on microsporidia, a highly derived group of parasitic fungi. |
| Patrick Keeling |
Early eukaryote evolution, molecular phylogeny, protistology. |
| Jae-Hyeok Lee |
Molecular genetics of sexual development in green algae, focusing on gene regulatory networks and cell wall assembly; Phylogenomics study of developmental mechanisms for the evolution of land plants from their green algal ancestors; Genetic engineering of algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production. |
| Laura Wegener Parfrey |
Microbiome of coastal marine organisms; eukaryotes in the microbiome |
| Curtis Suttle |
The biology of viruses that infect marine phytoplankton and bacteria, and the role of these viruses in population dynamics and geochemical cycles. |