The following are some of the excellent Minions of the Casamatta Lab
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Ralph Perkerson
Ralph is a graduate student interested in all things cyanobacterial, with a bent towards untangling the web of the Oscillatoriales. He is a master of DNA sequencing, and is exploring the use of AFLPs as population markers and phylogenetic tools. Further, he is conducting research into the ecology and phenology of cyanobacteria from Ichetucknee Springs, Florida. Ralph is also a student researcher on our project to examine the role of native riparian vegetation as a nutrient sink for non-point source loading into aquatic ecosystems. |
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Emilie Stringfellow
Emilie is a graduate student interested in a bevy of algal projects. She is currently finishing a project examining the phylogenetic placement of the freshwater cyanobacterial genus Geitlerinema. She is also intimately involved in a number of other projects, and another student researcher on our project to examine the role of native riparian vegetation as a nutrient sink for non-point source loading into aquatic ecosystems. |
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Justin Bacon
Justin is an undergraduate examining the role and nature of freshwater cyanophages. He is currently cloning and sequencing the LPP-1 and LPP-2 phages, both of which infect members of the Oscillatoriales (Cyanobacteria). |
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Alexis Anderson
Alexis is an undergraduate who is currently working on a project to sequence a number of cyanobacterial strains from desert soils. Many of these are taxa are new to science, and their role in ecosystems poorly understood at best. Thus, Alexis is striving to shed light on these creatures. |
Jessica Rockwood
Jessica is an undergraduate interested in ethnobotany, and is currently exploring the use of the tropical plant Moringa for its anti-microbial properties.
Ted Olsen
Ted is an undergraduate who is exploring the allelochemical compounds of two interesting cyanobacterial strains: Auloseira and Hapalosiphon. Both of these strains have shown a propensity to reduce concurrent algal populations, and Ted is determining the nature of this response.
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