Research and Teaching Interests:
- Population genetics, resource conservation, genomic evolution and symbiosis biology in aquatic (both freshwater and marine) microbes and multi-cellular organisms.
Research in The Santos Lab focuses on population genetics, resource conservation, genomic evolution and symbiosis biology in aquatic (both freshwater and marine) and terrestrial microbes and multi-cellular organisms.
Subject area:
- Evolutionary Genetics & Systematics,
- Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation,
- Physiological Adaptations and Functional Genomics,
- Host-Microbial Interactions.
Research area:
- Biology of Symbiodinium
- Evolutionary physiology of euryhalinity in anchialine crustaceans
- Ecology and Evolution of Anchialine Organisms in the Pacific Basin
- Biogeography of Antarctic benthic invertebrates
- NSF AToL: WormNet II - Assembling the Annelid Tree of Life
- Genetic Connectivity and Demography of Caranx in the Main Hawaiian Islands.
Research Fields:
- anchialine ecosystem
- Biodiversity & Conservation
- coral reef ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- halocaridina
- Marine & Freshwater Biology
- microbial community structure
- microbial symbiosis
- Microbiology
- Symbiodinium
- Symbiosis.
