Emilio Garcia-Robledo is a biological oceanographer at the Department of Biology of the University of Cadiz, Spain. His research focuses on the interrelationship between microbial processes and the distribution of key compounds in aquatic environments. Currently, his research focuses on the control of oxygen on the distribution and activity of microorganisms at the interfaces of … Continued
Dr. Julia Brown is a Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, USA. Her research focuses on disentangling interactions between viruses and microbes using integrative techniques that merge information gained from single cell genomes with diverse data types. Julia was previously a Bioinformatics Scientist for the Single Cell Genomics Center … Continued
Sibille is technical staff at the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO) in Phytoplancton Diversity Ecology and Life Cycle Adaptations (PhytoDELICA), the laboratory of Professor Peter von Dassow. She is in charge of all the logistics associated with the field. Her interest is related to understan ding the distribution of phytoplankton in oxygen minimum zones. She … Continued
Elisa Hernández-Magaña is a postdoctoral researcher in the Nordcee group at the University of Southern Denmark, where she also earned her PhD. Specializing in microbial ecology, her work focuses on the physiology of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) under oxygen depletion, aiming to better understand the novel oxygen production pathway via NO-dismutation in this fascinating group of … Continued
Emilio Espinoza is an undergrad biochemistry student from the The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile affiliated with the Phytodelica Lab (Phytoplankton Diversity Ecology and Life Cycle Adaptations Laboratory). He did a research on virus-coccolithophorid interaction in Emiliania Huxleyi, comparing the degree of susceptibility to infection of different strains and analyzing whether the coccolith could explain … Continued
Fabian Cortes is a M.Sc in Oceanography student from the University of Concepcion, supervised by Dr. Montserrat Aldunate. and affiliated with the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO). His previous research aimed to discern the biological, physical and chemical factors in which a phytoplankton bloom occurred. Currently, he is focused in researching the effect that anoxic … Continued
Gerardo is an Analytical Chemist (2010) from the University of Concepción and an Industrial Civil Engineer (2020) from the University of Bio Bio. He has specialized in instrumental chemical analysis and the implementation of sampling and analysis systems. Currently, he serves as the Director of Management and Laboratories at the Center for Oceanographic Instrumentation (CIO) … Continued
Taylor Heyl is a deep-sea ecologist and Research Associate in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her interests are focused on understanding the relationships between deep-sea biological communities and their physical, chemical and geological ecosystems with a focus on chemosynthetic ecosystems hosting hydrocarbons and the ecological and evolutionary processes that structure the … Continued
Associate Professor Laura Bristow is a marine biogeochemist at the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Her interdisciplinary research is focused on the cycling of elements (notably nitrogen) and microbial community function across oxic-anoxic interfaces, like those to be found in the OMZ off the coast of Chile, that will be investigated … Continued
Montserrat Aldunate is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Concepción and the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO). She is Marine Biologist, Master of Science and Doctor in Oceanography. For her doctoral studies and later for her postdoctoral research Montse awarder a fellowship from Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), Chile. Montserrat has … Continued
