[bioundgrd] UROP position IAP and Spring: King Lab

[Joyce Roberge]

Dept of Biology:
Faculty Supervisor: Jonathan King

Title: Environmental Microbiology; Effects of Thermal Stress on Marine Cyanobacteria and Cyanophage:
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The oceans are warming faster than predicted. Among the organisms sensitive to temperature are the photosynthetic cyanobacteria that form the base of the oceanic food chains, and also influence the carbon cycle directly. We are studying in the laboratory the thermal sensitivity of a marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus WH8109, and a dsDNA phage Syn5 that infects it in the oceans. The project involves determining the limiting temperatures for photosynthesis, cell growth and phage propagation, for incorporation into global marine ecology and climate models. Techniques include spectroscopy, SDS gel electrophoresis, light and electron microscopy.

Hours: 20 hrs/week during IAP; 8 hrs/week during Spring semester; potentially full time for summer 2015.

Prerequisite: Biology 7.02. or equivalent biology laboratory experience, and in interest in the dynamics of global climate change.

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Contact Cammie Haase-Pettingell
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Cameron Haase-Pettingell
MIT 68-330 , Biology Dept.
77 Massachusetts .Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone 617-253-3545
Cell 617-733-3623 (  the lab has Dead zones)
email chaase at mit.edu<mailto:chaase at mit.edu>

Web site -   http://web.mit.edu/king-lab/www/







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