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Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology · Ecology

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h-index53
i10-index97
Publications150
Citations13,518

Grants

13 total · 0 active

NSF #2029299

IMAGINE: Adaptation of cyanobacterial light harvesting and metal homeostasis traits to environmental change.

Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2020-10-01 → 2024-09-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #1233085

Collaborative Research: Seasonal bloom dynamics: Synechococcus-grazer interactions as a model system

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2012-09-01 → 2017-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #1021421

Collaborative Research: Constitutive and Inducible Predation Defenses in Cyanobacteria

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2010-09-01 → 2014-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

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All Grants

13 total · 0 active

NSF #2029299

IMAGINE: Adaptation of cyanobacterial light harvesting and metal homeostasis traits to environmental change.

Amount
$800K–$900K
Period
2020-10-01 → 2024-09-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #1233085

Collaborative Research: Seasonal bloom dynamics: Synechococcus-grazer interactions as a model system

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2012-09-01 → 2017-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #1021421

Collaborative Research: Constitutive and Inducible Predation Defenses in Cyanobacteria

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2010-09-01 → 2014-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #0817775

Copper Metabolism in Marine Synechococcus

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2008-10-01 → 2013-09-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #0938190

EAGER: Tool development for proteomics and environmental metaproteomics

Amount
<$100K
Period
2009-08-01 → 2011-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #0731771

Coordinated Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing and Proteomics: A Double-Barreled Approach to Cyanobacterial Community Analysis

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2007-10-01 → 2011-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #0648175

Collaborative Research: A Post-Genomic Approach to Synechococcus-grazer Interactions

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2007-03-15 → 2011-02-28
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #0333162

Microbial Genome Sequencing: Life at the Land/Ocean Margin: Genomic Analysis of a Coastal Cyanobacterium

Amount
—
Period
2003-10-01 → 2007-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #9818543

Molecular Probes for Nutrient Stress in Phytoplankton: Emiliania Huxleyi as a Model

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
1999-04-01 → 2003-09-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #0075927

SGER: A multi-user, combined thermal cycler and microfluorimeter for studies of marine organisms

Amount
<$100K
Period
2000-05-15 → 2001-04-30
PIs
3

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #9633111

Physiological Ecology of Marine Cyanobacterial Communities

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
1996-09-01 → 2000-08-31
PIs
3

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #9317958

Acquisition of a Flow Cytometer for Marine Biology and Biotechnology

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
1994-06-01 → 1996-05-31
PIs
3

Awarded at University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

NSF #8915301

The Molecular Evolution of Prokaryotic DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases: Research Fellowship in Marine Biotechnology

Amount
<$100K
Period
1989-09-01 → 1992-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Chicago

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: Looks can be deceiving: discordances in phylogeny and morphology within loricate choanoflagellates (Open Biology)2026-02-25
  2. New preprint: Looks can be deceiving: discordances in phylogeny and morphology within loricate choanoflagellates2025-07-23

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