Luana Yazmin Acosta is currently a PhD student in the department of Geological Sciences, supported by a scholarship from the National Scientific and Technical a Research Council (CONICET). She is working in the Institute of Basic, Applied and Environmental Geosciences of Buenos Aires (IGeBA, CONICET-UBA). Her doctoral research focuses on understanding the seafloor morphology and … Continued
Robert Sutak is a biochemist and eukaryotic microbiologist who leads the Biometals and Drug Discovery Laboratory at the Biocev Centre, which is affiliated with Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His main area of expertise is iron homeostasis in organisms including yeasts, human disease models, and parasitic protozoa. He has a longstanding interest in understanding … Continued
Pavel Doležal, Ph.D., is a Czech molecular parasitologist and group leader at the Department of Parasitology, BIOCEV, Faculty of Science, Charles University. His research explores how protein transport systems and mitochondria have evolved, particularly in relation to parasitism and the transition to anaerobic lifestyles. He has collaborated internationally with research teams in Australia and the … Continued
Daniel is a Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry PhD candidate in the Budin lab at the University of California – San Diego. Daniel holds a B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering from UC Santa Cruz and a M.S. in Chemistry from UC San Diego. His research focuses on how organisms optimize the lipid composition of their cellular membranes … Continued
Buzz Baum is a cell biologist. Buzz studied Biochemistry at Oxford University, obtained his PhD studying the cell division cycle in yeast with Sir Paul Nurse in London, and was a postdoctoral researcher studying cell shape and tissue organisation in fruit flies at Harvard Medical School with Norbert Perrimon. Since 2001, when Buzz returned to … Continued
Valerie Y. De Anda Torres is a National Geographic Explorer and Senior Scientist in the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Microbial Oceanography Unit, at the University of Vienna. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and a Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on … Continued
Sylvia Nupp is a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at Montana State University. She holds B.S. degrees in biology and chemistry from University of Arkansas. Sylvia’s research interests lie in using genetic, single-cell, and culturing techniques in order to study uncultured organisms in deep sea and hot spring sediments. She currently works on understanding methane cycling … Continued
Stavros is a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at Montana State University. His research focuses on cultivation of anaerobic archaea with an emphasis on Asgard archaea. His interest extends further into physiological questions derived from metagenomics that can be tested at the single cell level either from enrichment cultures or directly from environmental samples. During his … Continued
Alyson Santoro is a microbial oceanographer and Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on microbes involved in nutrient cycling in the ocean, especially of the element nitrogen. She is interested in cultivating new microbes and discovering novel ways of tracking their activity. Her research combines laboratory experiments with field observations, … Continued
Dr. Nick Baetge is a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Botany and Plant Pathology and Microbiology at Oregon State University. He investigates how the quality of organic substrates shapes microbial community dynamics, particularly in the context of climate-driven changes like smoke deposition. By integrating biological, geochemical, genomic, and optical data from fieldwork, laboratory experiments, … Continued
