The People Behind Phaeocystis.org

My principal interest is in the role marine microalgae play in biogeochemical cycling, with particular emphasis on the scales of temporal and spatial variability of microalgal biomass and productivity in the Southern Ocean. This knowledge is essential to understanding how anthropogenic and atmospheric forcing controls the biogenic flux of CO₂ into the oceans, and ultimately, to the sediments.

contact email: arrigo at stanford.edu         website: http://ocean.stanford.edu/arrigo

The major goal in my laboratory is to examine how photosynthetic organisms perceive and respond to their environment, and to define how these responses are controlled and how they help the organism survive adverse conditions. While my laboratory emphasizes the basic biological aspects of acclimation processes (and is very mechanistic in its orientation), we are also taking both a genomic and evolutionary approach to study acclimation mechanisms used by photosynthetic organisms.

contact email: arthurg at stanford.edu         website: http://carnegiedpb.stanford.edu/research/grossman2003_rev1/people/People.htm

The major goal of my research is to characterize how strategies of nutrient acquisition differ among marine phytoplankton and to use this information to describe their respective niches in the marine environment. In particular, my work uses molecular techniques, such as transcript profiling, to describe nutrient utilization in cyanobacteria, picoeukaryotes and polar phytoplankton. Currently, I am involved in the sequencing and/or annotation of the genomes of the picoeukaryote Aureococcus anophagefferens and the polar prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis antarctica.

contact email: mineberg at stanford.edu