Dr. Jeemin Rhim is a postdoctoral researcher in the Santoro Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Jeemin is a geomicrobiologist interested in studying how microbes, especially archaea, and their metabolic processes influence the geochemical environment around them, and vice versa. Her previous work has focused on investigating the isotope signatures of microbial methane to aid the source identification of methane and developing a new (paleo)environmental proxy using the hydrogen isotope signatures of archaeal lipids. At UCSB, Jeemin is combining cultivation, field sampling, and flow cytometry to develop a targeted cell sorting and genome amplification method for (un)cultured archaea, with the goal of applying the approach to answer questions about the origin of the eukaryotic cell. Jeemin received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Earth Science from the University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. in Geobiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UCSB, Jeemin spent two years as the Dartmouth Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow in the Earth Sciences Department at Dartmouth College.
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