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Our Team

The Marine Microbiomics Lab is made up of a highly diverse group of scientists, spanning different career stages, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, socioeconomic status and race. We are committed to cultivating, nurturing and enhancing this diversity and creating a sense of belonging in our work environment. We firmly believe that fostering inclusion and diversity leads to better science, creativity, and innovation and lies at the core of building a better society.

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Principal Investigator

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samin[at]nyu.edu

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C-CoMP Postdoctoral Fellow

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cmm9990[at]nyu.edu

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Research Associate

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jc13227[at]nyu.edu

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Research Technician

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iulia.bibire[at]nyu.edu

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Undergraduate

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am12198[at]nyu.edu

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Postdoctoral Researcher

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cf2290[at]nyu.edu

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Research Associate

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salah.abdelrazig[at]nyu.edu

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Research Associate

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gx2088[at]nyu.edu

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Undergraduate Researcher

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amiteash.paul[at]nyu.edu

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Undergraduate

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cg138[at]nyu.edu

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Research Associate

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are6747[at]nyu.edu

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Research Associate

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sk11452[at]nyu.edu

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Graduate Student/Instructor of Biology

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ai37[at]nyu.edu

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Undergraduate

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ig2172[at]nyu.edu

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Undergraduate

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yw7250[at]nyu.edu

Alumni

Name - Affiliation following departure from the lab, position

(organized chronologically most recent - least recent)

Postdoctoral Researchers

Michael Ochsenkühn

João Pedro Monteiro - CESAM, Research Scientist

Ahmed Shibl - Genetic Heritage Group, NYU Abu Dhabi, Res. Associate

Gregory Behringer - Genesis Labs, Senior Molecular Biologist

Graduate Students

Cong Fei (visiting graduate student) - current postdoc in the lab

Research Technicians

Lisa Coe - University of Florida, Graduate Student (NSF Fellowship)

Undergraduate Students

Fatema Alrahbi - Khalifa University, Medical School Student

Andrés López Schrader - Teach For America Corps, Fellow

Yejie Yun - The Broad Institute, Computational Biologist

Miraflor Santos - MIT-WHOI Joint PhD Program, Graduate Student

Nicolas Wipf - University College Dublin, Medical School Student

Jhamal Fanning

Recent Collaborators

Andrew Alverson - University of Arkansas

Rudolf Amann - Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology

Jean-Baptiste Raina - University of Technology Sydney

Tim Bromage - New York University

John Burt - New York University Abu Dhabi

Kristin Gunsalus - New York University

Cindy Heil - Mote Marine Labs

Katherine Helliwell - University of Exeter

Aashish Jha - New York University Abu Dhabi

Joaquin Martinez - Bigelow Marine Labs

Ahmed Moustafa - American University in Cairo

Francesco Paparella - New York University Abu Dhabi

Jorge Rodriguez - Khalifa University

Justin Seymour - University of Technology Sydney

Christ Voolstra - University of Konstanz

Da-Zhi Wang, Xiamen University

Lizzy Wilbanks - University of California Santa Barbara

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