Principal Investigator
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Alexander Chase, PhDDr. Chase received his B.S. in Biological Sciences at UC Los Angeles (UCLA) and his PhD in Biological Sciences at UC Irvine, studying the mechanisms driving biogeographic patterns of microbial diversity with Dr. Jennifer Martiny. Through this work, Dr. Chase became interested in the way microbes communicate within their cells, with other microbes, and with the environment. These interactions are largely driven by chemical communication in the form of small molecule natural products. Consequently, Dr. Chase completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with Dr. Paul Jensen. His research aims to bridge natural product chemistry and microbial ecology to uncover the mechanisms maintaining microbial diversity in microbiomes. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Roy M. Huffington Dept. of Earth Sciences at SMU.
Full CV can be found here. |
Lab Staff
Bukola Ogungbe, Lab Technician |
Undergraduate Students
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Ruhani AhluwaliaRuhani is an independent undergraduate student researcher interested in how microbiomes respond to pollutants (heavy metals) and intermittent environmental perturbations.
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