Category: travels

• ZIJ presents at OCB2017

  ZIJ presented on the diversity and activity of Prochlorococcus at the OCB2017 summer meeting at WHOI in Woods Hole, MA. The presentation, “Ribosomal RNA and DNA (23S) of Prochlorococcus reveal variable activity and abundance relationships across taxonomic ranks” was based on a study with lead author and former student Alyse Larkin, now at UCI.  The…

  June 26, 2017

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• Sarah Loftus presents poster at Algae Biomass Summit – wins award

  PhD student Sarah Loftus attended the 10th annual  Algae Biomass Summit in Phoenix, AZ. The summit brings together individuals from academia, industry, and government who research, lobby for, and capitalize on the products and services provided by algae, notably biofuels, food, carbon capture, wastewater treatment, and more. Sarah won first place in the Young Researcher Poster Competition, Biology Division,…

  October 27, 2016

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• ZIJ presents on temperature/Pro at ISME16

  ZIJ presented at ISME16 in Montreal on the temperature regulation of Prochlorococcus photosynthesis and growth under the title, “The effect of temperature on gene expression and carbon uptake/release in diverse strains of Prochlorococcus” Its a good time to be a Microbial Ecology! Abstract: The ecological success of the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus is driven in part…

  August 22, 2016

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