Bonnie has been developing diagnostic procedures for shrimp pathogens since 1990. She also knows Tucson, hiking and the Sonoran desert. Bonnie is focused on getting the Roseophage project off the ground (isolate en masse, sequence genomes, identify 'indicator hosts' and 'model phages'), as well as offering a supportive role in most lab projects starting with all things flow cytometry.

Bonnie's formal CV is available here.

Li knows freshwater cyanophages like no other. She will be starting in Fall 2008 as a post-doc, and wants to focus on the daunting flow cytometry probe-based single cell "how many cells are infected by phages" challenge.

Li's formal CV is available here.

Elke joins us in Fall 2008 from the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Her PhD thesis work centered upon using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to identify particular marine microbial groups, and evaluate their physiological responses to experimental manipulations. Her research interests in the Tucson Marine Phage Lab will be on developing and exploring the Roseobacter phage-host system.

Elke's formal CV is available here.

Julio hails from Oaxaca, Mexico and will be joining us Fall 2008 to pursue a masters degree. His research topic is undecided, but he has interests in community metagenomics and Roseobacter phage-host experimental systems.

Julio's formal CV is available here.

Jennifer is taking time out from her work with Jeremiah Hackett's group in EEB to dabble with phage in our lab for a lab rotation. Her project has centered around bioinformatic exploration of the mobile genetic elements occurring at putative cyanobacterial host genome integration site of an ocean siphovirus.

Jennifer's formal CV is available here.