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My career continued under Dr. Peter Cotty at [http://ag.arizona.edu/research/cottylab/ The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service] (USDA-ARS; 2009-2011). The laboratory leads aflatoxin management through improved understanding of aflatoxin-producing fungi and the aflatoxin contamination process. Responsibilities included studies of the etiology and epidemiology of contamination as well as adaptation, divergence, dispersal, pathogenicity, morphogenesis, and cellular regulation of fungi. Experiments included (1) extraction and analysis of B1 toxin and cyclopiazonic acid, (2) competition studies, (3) seed coating, (4) fungal isolate diversity, and (5) complementation tests to determine vegetative compatibility groups. I received my B.S. in Environmental Microbiology, minor in chemistry, from the University of Arizona in 2011.
My career continued under Dr. Peter Cotty at [http://ag.arizona.edu/research/cottylab/ The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service] (USDA-ARS; 2009-2011). The laboratory leads aflatoxin management through improved understanding of aflatoxin-producing fungi and the aflatoxin contamination process. Responsibilities included studies of the etiology and epidemiology of contamination as well as adaptation, divergence, dispersal, pathogenicity, morphogenesis, and cellular regulation of fungi. Experiments included (1) extraction and analysis of B1 toxin and cyclopiazonic acid, (2) competition studies, (3) seed coating, (4) fungal isolate diversity, and (5) complementation tests to determine vegetative compatibility groups. I received my B.S. in Environmental Microbiology, minor in chemistry, from the University of Arizona in 2011.
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My research led me to work under Dr. Alison Murray at The Desert Research Institute in The Molecular Microbial Ecology Laboratory (2011-2013). Project focus was the biogeochemistry and microbial diversity in brine from Lake Vida, Antarctica. Lake Vida is known as one of the most extreme environments on earth and an excellent analog for icy worlds such as Enceladus, Europa, and Ganymede. My thesis entitled "Insights into the origin of N2O in Lake Vida brine" looked at abiotic and biological factors to determine the origin of the nitrous oxide in Lake Vida brine and to determine if site preference can be used to distinguish between abiotic and biological N2O production. I received my M.S. in Environmental Science and Health (ES&H) from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2013.
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My research led me to work under Dr. Alison Murray at The Desert Research Institute in The
[http://www.dri.edu/alison-murray
Molecular Microbial Ecology Laboratory
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(2011-2013). Project focus was the biogeochemistry and microbial diversity in brine from Lake Vida, Antarctica. Lake Vida is known as one of the most extreme environments on earth and an excellent analog for icy worlds such as Enceladus, Europa, and Ganymede. My thesis entitled "Insights into the origin of N2O in Lake Vida brine" looked at abiotic and biological factors to determine the origin of the nitrous oxide in Lake Vida brine and to determine if site preference can be used to distinguish between abiotic and biological N2O production. I received my M.S. in Environmental Science and Health (ES&H) from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2013.
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My passion for polar and extreme environments has taken me back to The University of Arizona, where I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Soil, Water, and Environmental Science (SWES) and minors in Astrobiology and Global Change. Here, I am working in the SWES-MEL under Dr. Virginia Rich. Project focus is to predict ecosystem and planetary response to a changing climate, scaling from microorganisms to ecosystem processes. I propose to meet this challenge of scaling from the genomic diversity of communities to ecosystem-scale processes, i.e. “from genes to ecosystems,” by deconstructing and quantifying the stepwise linkages involved. Specifically, I will move beyond metabolic potential (genomes and metagenomes) to measuring expressed metabolism (meta- transcriptomes and -proteomes) and quantitatively relating it to biogeochemical fluxes. I will do so for the greenhouse gas methane, in controlled laboratory incubations of methane-cycling cultivars and natural communities, specifically, those of the thawing permafrost at our long-term field site of Stordalen Mire in Sweden. Co-investigators: Saleska Lab (Univ. of Arizona), Tyson Lab (Univ. of Queensland), Crill Lab (Stockholm Univ.), Chanton Lab (Florida State Univ.), Li and Frolking Labs (Univ. of New Hampshire), and Abisko Research Station in Sweden. [[Image:DRI.jpg|thumb|right]]
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My passion for polar and extreme environments has taken me back to The University of Arizona, where I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in
[https://swes.cals.arizona.edu/
Soil, Water, and Environmental Science
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(SWES) and minors in Astrobiology and Global Change. Here, I am working in the SWES-MEL under Dr. Virginia Rich. Project focus is to predict ecosystem and planetary response to a changing climate, scaling from microorganisms to ecosystem processes. I propose to meet this challenge of scaling from the genomic diversity of communities to ecosystem-scale processes, i.e. “from genes to ecosystems,” by deconstructing and quantifying the stepwise linkages involved. Specifically, I will move beyond metabolic potential (genomes and metagenomes) to measuring expressed metabolism (meta- transcriptomes and -proteomes) and quantitatively relating it to biogeochemical fluxes. I will do so for the greenhouse gas methane, in controlled laboratory incubations of methane-cycling cultivars and natural communities, specifically, those of the thawing permafrost at our long-term field site of Stordalen Mire in Sweden. Co-investigators: Saleska Lab (Univ. of Arizona), Tyson Lab (Univ. of Queensland), Crill Lab (Stockholm Univ.), Chanton Lab (Florida State Univ.), Li and Frolking Labs (Univ. of New Hampshire), and Abisko Research Station in Sweden. [[Image:DRI.jpg|thumb|right]]
===Current Projects===
===Current Projects===
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==Education==
==Education==
* 2013- current, Ph.D. in Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona
* 2013- current, Ph.D. in Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona
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Minors in Astrobiology and Global Change
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Minors in
[http://astrobiology.arizona.edu/
Astrobiology
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and
[http://www.globalchange.arizona.edu/
Global Change
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* 2011-2013, M.S. in Environmental Science and Health, University of Nevada, Reno/Desert Research Institute
* 2011-2013, M.S. in Environmental Science and Health, University of Nevada, Reno/Desert Research Institute
* 2007-2011, B.S. in Environmental Microbiology University of Arizona
* 2007-2011, B.S. in Environmental Microbiology University of Arizona
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Minor in Chemistry
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Minor in Chemistry
==Research Interests==
==Research Interests==
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==Publications==
==Publications==
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==Awards==
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[[Image:CABNR AWARD CEREMONY APRIL 2013.jpg|300x200px|thumb|right|UNR CABNR Award Ceremony April 2013]]
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==Outreach==