https://www.bdiezlab.cl/tag/postdoctoral-fellow/Postdoctoral FellowWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-us© 2024 Beatriz Díez LabMon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdiezlab.cl/media/icon.pnghttps://www.bdiezlab.cl/tag/postdoctoral-fellow/https://www.bdiezlab.cl/people/cridley/Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdiezlab.cl/people/cridley/<p style="color:grey; font-size:20px; text-align:center;"> Postdoctoral fellow </p> <div style="text-align:justify;"> <h3> About </h3> <p>With climate change expected to intensify, the frequency of marine upwelling events off the coast of Chile, and globally, are predicted to increase. This will result in substantial biogeochemical changes throughout the local system that could be reflected on a global scale. Interestingly, microbiological processes are largely ignored in climate change modeling, even though they are extremely important to the ecological balance. For instance, methane supersaturation of surface waters is now hypothesized to be caused by microbial metabolism. To that end, my project seeks to characterize the coupling of methylotrophy, methanogenesis and methanotrophy throughout the water column in this coastal upwelling system, and in other systems of interest in the future. This work integrates 16S rRNA gene sequencing, metagenomics, qPCR and metatranscriptomics with complementary biogeochemical and oceanographic data. Importantly, identification of key genes involved in the elusive aerobic methane production (methylotrophy) pathway will allow for a better understanding of the previously unexplainable methane supersaturation of surface waters. This information will ultimately help to quantify microbial methane flux to the atmosphere under dynamic conditions, which will improve the accuracy of climate change modeling. <br></p> </div> <style> .column-left{ float: left; width: 50%; text-align: left; } .column-right{ float: right; width: 50%; text-align: left; } </style> <div class="row"> <div class="column-left"> <h3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Interests</h3> <ul> <li>Microbial genomics <br></li> <li>Marine microbiology <br></li> <li>Microbial methane cycling <br></li> </ul> </div> <div class="column-right"> <h3> Education </h3> <i class="fas fa-graduation-cap pr-1 fa-fw"></i> PhD. Environmental Microbiology <p style="color:grey; font-size:15px;"> University of Calgary, Canada </p> <i class="fas fa-graduation-cap pr-1 fa-fw"></i> MASc. Biological Engineering <p style="color:grey; font-size:15px;"> Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada </p> <i class="fas fa-graduation-cap pr-1 fa-fw"></i> BSc. Microbiology & Immunology <p style="color:grey; font-size:15px;"> Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada </p> </div> </div> <h3> Contact </h3> <p> <i class="fas fa-envelope pr-1 fa-fw"></i> <a href="mailto:christina.m.ridley@gmail.com">christina.m.ridley@gmail.com</a></p>https://www.bdiezlab.cl/people/kjordaan/Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdiezlab.cl/people/kjordaan/<p style="color:grey; font-size:20px; text-align:center;"> Postdoctoral fellow </p> <div style="text-align:justify;"> <h3> About </h3> <p>&ldquo;<b>I don&rsquo;t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn&rsquo;t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.</b>&rdquo; - <em>Joy Harjo</em> <br><br> Deserts are magical, yet harsh, environments that flourish with all kinds of life: humans, plants, animals, and microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, archaea, viruses). Desert microbes have special adaptive mechanisms to survive these extreme environments. The focus of my research is to better understand the mechanisms by which microbial communities adapt to and/or are influenced by extreme environments using a suite of omics techniques. I’m also interested in: (i) the interactions/co-occurrences between microorganism, especially with drying-wetting events; (ii) how drying-wetting events impact biogeochemical cycles; (iii) the presence and ecology of viruses in deserts; and (iv) the effect of viruses on the succession and function of bacterial communities. <br></p> </div> <style> .column-left{ float: left; width: 50%; text-align: left; } .column-right{ float: right; width: 50%; text-align: left; } </style> <div class="column-left"> <h3> Interests </h3> <ul> <li>Microbial Ecology</li> <li>Extreme Environments</li> <li>Sequencing</li> <li>Bioinformatics</li> <li>Data Analysis <br><br></li> </ul> </div> <div class="column-right"> <h3> Education </h3> <i class="fas fa-graduation-cap pr-1 fa-fw"></i> PhD. Environmental Sciences, 2015 <p style="color:grey; font-size:15px; padding-left:32px;"> North-West University, South Africa </p> <p><br><br><br><br></p> </div> <h3> Contact </h3> <p> <i class="fas fa-envelope pr-1 fa-fw"></i> <a href="mailto:karen.jordaan20@gmail.com">karen.jordaan20@gmail.com</a></p>