Natalie Sarno is an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior PhD Candidate in Dr. Brett Baker’s Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a B.Sc. in Aquatic Biology from The University of California, Santa Barbara. After graduating, Natalie worked at next-generation sequencing biotechnology start-ups for two years. Today, Natalie is an aspiring aquatic microbiologist with broad research interests in the origin and evolution of life. Her current research leverages metagenomics to understand what microbes are doing in their natural environments from deep-sea marine sediments to freshwater lake surface waters. On-board the Falkor (too) she will be working to understand the role Asgard archaea have in the origin of eukaryotes.
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