Biology Seminar Series: From Single Cells to Satellites: Genomics-informed virus-microbe ecology across scales
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McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220276 Bicentennial Way
Middlebury, VT 05753 View in Campus Map
Open to the Public

From Single Cells to Satellites: Genomics-informed virus-microbe ecology across scales
Julia Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Brown will give an overview of her past and current research including discovery that viruses serve as a food source for the ocean’s smallest eukaryotes, characterizing infection in a globally sourced collection of marine microbes and exploration of phage-host dynamics across an oxygen gradient. If time, Brown may also highlight an ongoing collaborative project linking microbial diversity and activity to satellite ocean color, with sampling taking place on an old friend of Middlebury, the R/V Bowditch.
Dr. Brown is a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences with a background in microbiology, virology and bioinformatics. Brown’s research aims to characterize the diversity and roles of marine viruses and microbes in order to better understand their activity and potential within climate relevant ecosystems. She does so by coupling integrated field-based sampling approaches with state-of-the-art nucleic acid sequencing and bioinformatic techniques to draw out novel, otherwise unseen connections and relationships between viruses, microbes and the environment. Brown has an appointment at Colby College as Research Faculty and is involved in education at Bigelow through mentorship of undergraduate interns, teaching for Bigelow’s Sea Change Semester, and hosting data carpentry and bioinformatics workshops.
- Sponsored by:
- Biology
Contact Organizer
Thompson, Missey
mathomps@middlebury.edu
443-5258