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.