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, particular focus on functional genes
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