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.
Alumni
Name - Affiliation following departure from the lab, position
(organized chronologically most recent - least recent)
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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
Cong Fei
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Graduate Students
Cong Fei (visiting graduate student) - current postdoc in the lab
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Research Technicians
Lisa Coe - University of Florida, Graduate Student (NSF Fellowship)
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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
Isha Gandham
Caterina Gandolfi
Yatong Wang
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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