Microbial Biology Graduate Program

Ph.D. candidates Nupur Tyagi (left) and Gustavo Rios-Delgado (right) teach Dr. Boyd how to properly pour a polyacrylamide electrophoresis gel, which will be used to monitor protein-DNA interactions.

Microbial Biology graduate students Aila Inaba (right) and Olivia Cannon (left) sampling a black smoker vent aboard the research Vessel Atlantis, Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Recovery of the deep-submergence vehicle Alvin at the end of a deep dive to explore the deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Deploying substrates for microbial and larvae colonization experiments at a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, Eastern Pacific Ocean, depth 2,500 m.

Members of the Häggblom Lab (Niveda Thuravil, Chloe Costea and Kaitlin Decker) collecting sediment samples near Tuckerton NJ.

The research team (Max Häggblom, John Reinfelder, Vien Minh Duong and Hang Dam) sampling soil cores in rice paddy fields of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Left: Soil sampling at an Arctic tundra field site at Kilpisjärvi, in northern Finland. Right: Pathways to bioremediation: anaerobic bacteria respire selenate to elemental selenium

Kilpisjarvi early summer

Sampling for soil microbiomes in a boreal forest in Finland.

Shrinivas Nandi collecting sargassum samples in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Shrinivas Nandi and Kasey Walsh preparing samples of various corals on site in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic.