Nicole is currently finishing her Ph.D. with Steve Finkel at USC, where she studied, among other things, the genomic signatures of evolution in a long-term extended stationary phase experiment (1200 days!) in E. coli. She wanted to switch gears for her postdoc and work on marine microorganisms. Her proposal, “Quantifying dormancy rates and controlling factors in the globally abundant bacterioplankton SAR11”, has been funded as a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology. Nicole will employ a variety of advanced techniques, including fluorescence-activated cell-sorting and nanoSIMS, to investigate dormancy in one of the most important marine microbial clades, near and dear to my heart, SAR11. We’re thrilled for Nicole to join the lab, starting in January, to begin this important work. Congratulations Nicole!
[…] lab as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology. We introduced her a little in a previous post, but some more interesting things about Nicole- she’s a So-Cal native and grew up in my home […]