Today was the ceremonial breaking of the ground for the Orrin Pilkey Marine Sciences and Conservation Genetics Center. The ~10,000 square foot building, will be located on Pivers Island with views of the Rachel Carson Preserve, and will have state-of-the-art molecular sciences laboratories, offices for faculty and students, a molecular-oriented […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Dr. Zackary Johnson is named the Arthur P. Kaupe Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology. Honoring the memory of her late husband, Sandra Taylor Kaupe, a well-recognized coastal conservationist in her home state of Florida, established the named assistant professorship at the Duke Marine Laboratory, which is part of the Nicholas School […]
Maria de Oca, a second year PhD student in the group, attended the BD Influx Flow Cytometer Operator Course at the BD headquarters in San Jose, CA. There she refined her flow cytometry skills including instrument optimization and quality control, single cell sorting and data acquisition and analysis. She will […]
The 2012 Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference was held at Barga (near Lucca) Italy in the Tuscany region. ZIJ presented on the lab’s recent work on assessing the in situ activity of Prochlorococcus using rRNA-based approaches in a presentation titled, “In situ activity of a dominant Prochlorococcus ecotype (eHL-II) determined […]
The Johnson Lab travelled to Knoxville, TN to work on a joint experiment led by our colleagues from the Zinser Lab at UT Knoxville. The goal of the experiment is to look at the hourly patterns of carbon uptake and its fate into metabolites over the course of the day in […]
ZIJ co-organized a session on climate extremes and presented the group’s research on ocean acidification at the German-American Frontiers of Science held in Potsdam Germany. The meeting is co-sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and brings together young scientists from Germany and […]
Visiting Dr. Tatiana Ilyina of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg Germany, ZIJ gave a seminar titled “Temporal Variability of the Carbonate System in a Dynamic Coastal Estuary”. The talk highlighted recent work in collaboration with Dr. Dana Hunt on the temporal variability of pH, DIC and other […]
Seven undergraduates at the Duke Marine Laboratory working as independent study researches participated on the POWOW1 research cruise lead by the Johnson Lab. Each student had their own project that was integral to the success of the overall cruise. Today, each of the seven students (Erin, Michael, Katrina, Caroline, Allie, […]
As part of the Phytoplankton Of Warming Ocean Waters (POWOW) project, the Johnson Lab completed a transect in the Eastern Northern Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Diego, California. The cruise focused on the diversity, abundance and activity of Prochlorococcus using a variety of techniques, but we also characterizes […]
The Johnson Lab departs today for an open ocean expedition from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Diego, California aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson, a major research vessel of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the POWOW (Phytoplankton Of Warming Ocean Waters) research cruise is to measure the abundance, […]