Marine microbes exhibit seasonal cycles in community composition, yet the key drivers of these patterns and microbial population fidelity to specific environmental conditions remain to be determined. To begin addressing these questions, we characterized microbial dynamics weekly for 3 years at a temperate, coastal site with dramatic environmental seasonality. This […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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Prof. Claudia Benitez-Nelson of the University of South Carolina visited the Duke Marine Lab and gave a stirring seminar on harmful algal blooms off of California. Claudia’s talk, “Neurotoxins and the Environment. Understanding the Production, Cycling and Fate of Domoic Acid Along the California Coast” was a fantastic mixture of oceanography […]
The microbe team welcomed two new students, Elsa (Jia Li) and Norah (Xue Rui), two visiting undergraduates to the group. They are joining the lab for 5 months to complete their undergraduate honors dissertations at Tianjin University, China. Both are working on the molecular diversity of microbes, in the context […]