I am a graduate student in the UW School of Oceanography and UW Astrobiology Program, specializing in microbiology and molecular biology at the Center for Environmental Genomics. I study viral replication strategies, chemoautotrophy, and biogeochemical cycling in deep-sea extreme environments through novel cultivation strategies, metagenomics, and metaviromics. By scrutinizing the modern analogs to some of Earth's earliest lifeforms, I am interested in exploring the mechanisms of gene-transfer that underly the origin of life on Earth, the genetic diversity that has evolved to maintain life on Earth, and how that might reflect the fundamental development of life in our universe.
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I am a graduate student in the UW School of Oceanography and UW Astrobiology Program, specializing in microbiology and molecular biology at the Center for Environmental Genomics. I study viral replication strategies, chemoautotrophy, and biogeochemical cycling in deep-sea extreme environments through novel cultivation strategies, metagenomics, and metaviromics. By scrutinizing the modern analogs to some of Earth's earliest lifeforms, I am interested in exploring the mechanisms of gene-transfer that underly the origin of life on Earth, the genetic diversity that has evolved to maintain life on Earth, and how that might reflect the fundamental development of life in our universe.
