Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Sponge-microbial interactions, determine what controls microbial community structure within a host organism
  • Increasing microbial recoverability from various environments, create and apply novel media and media additions in order to cultivate the largest percent of the community
  • Elucidation of microbially-produced secondary metabolites that serve as anti-microbials
  • Applying molecular genetic techniques to examine the microbial communities associated with various environments,
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Communities
Biological Science
Degrees
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Microbial Ecology , 1997
BA, Miami University, Microbiology, 1992
Keywords
biological sciences