Current ProjectsTracing Aridity: Sedimentary Preservation of Scytonemin from Microbiotic Desert Soil Crusts
Infochemical control of microbial interactions and nutrient cycling in the North Atlantic
Dissolved Phosphorus Processing by Trichodesmium Consortia: Quantitative Partitioning, Role of Microbial Coordination, and Impact on Nitrogen Fixation
Development of a low-cost PHOtosynthesis, Respiration, and Carbon balance Yielding System (PHORCYS)
Previous ProjectsInvestigation of bacterial cell-cell signaling and community succession in biofilms: application of a novel, cultivation-independent, chromatography/mass spectrometry-based to study ship hull biofouling.
Sources and biogeochemical cycling of intact polar lipids in the upper ocean.
Quorum-sensing and the carbon cycle: identifying cell-density dependent organic carbon degradation among marine bacteria in sinking particles