Georges (Gio) Kanaan
Graduate Student
Biological Oceanography
- gkanaan@uw.edu
- Website
- Office: MSB 374
Schedule a meeting with me here.
Graduate student studying biological oceanography in the Deming Lab.
My work during my first year was generously funded by the Leo Cup Award. That award funded a study which consisted of evaluating the emulsifying and aggregating potential of extracellular polysaccharides produced by certain arctic bacteria. A new emulsifier might prove to be very effective in cleaning up arctic and sub-arctic oil spills, as well as aggregating micro-plastics in the ocean together to make them easier to filter out. This work is ongoing.
My master's project consisted of an energetic analysis of a bacterial community found in an ancient, subzero hypersaline brine, isolated in Arctic permafrost. I sought to understand the energetic requirement of the bacteria in these cryopeg brines. I estimated the mean energetic need of the dominant bacterium isolated from these brines. I then developed a model of the carbon cycle of this system to understand the fundamental energetic constraints imposed on it.
Looking ahead to my PhD, I am interested in understanding how bacteria use DNA methylation to adapt to changing and extreme environments.
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Georges (Gio) Kanaan
Graduate Student
Biological Oceanography
- gkanaan@uw.edu
- Website
- Office: MSB 374
Schedule a meeting with me here.
Graduate student studying biological oceanography in the Deming Lab.
My work during my first year was generously funded by the Leo Cup Award. That award funded a study which consisted of evaluating the emulsifying and aggregating potential of extracellular polysaccharides produced by certain arctic bacteria. A new emulsifier might prove to be very effective in cleaning up arctic and sub-arctic oil spills, as well as aggregating micro-plastics in the ocean together to make them easier to filter out. This work is ongoing.
My master's project consisted of an energetic analysis of a bacterial community found in an ancient, subzero hypersaline brine, isolated in Arctic permafrost. I sought to understand the energetic requirement of the bacteria in these cryopeg brines. I estimated the mean energetic need of the dominant bacterium isolated from these brines. I then developed a model of the carbon cycle of this system to understand the fundamental energetic constraints imposed on it.
Looking ahead to my PhD, I am interested in understanding how bacteria use DNA methylation to adapt to changing and extreme environments.
