Education

Teaching

• Marine Microbiology
• General Microbiology Laboratory
• Biology of Cells Laboratory

Teaching

Programs

• Biology BS

Research

Research interests

• Marine microbial ecology
• Diversity, distributions, and activity of marine microbes contributing to nitrogen fixation
• Microbially mediated transformations of nitrogen
• Ecology of toxin-producing cyanobacteria
• Cyanobacterial blooms

Research

Research Activities

• EAGER: Collaborative Research: Detection limit in oceanic nitrogen fixation measurements - Constraints of rates from the mesopelagic ocean. NSF-Chemical Oceanography. 2017-2018.
• Microbial associations in zooplankton: significance for the marine nitrogen cycle. NSF-Biological Oceanography. Sep 15 2011 - August 31 2016
• Boston Engineering Corporation (Naval Sea Systems). Influence of UV light on marine biofilms. 2016-2019

Select publications

Moisander PH, Benavides M, Berman-Frank I, Bonnet S, White A, Riemann L. (2017).
Chasing after non-cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in marine pelagic environments
Frontiers in Microbiology, 8

Shoemaker KM, Moisander PH (2017).
Seasonal variation in the copepod gut microbiome in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean
Environmental Microbiology, 19, 3087-3097.

Moisander PH, Sexton AD, Daley MC. (2015).
Stable associations masked by temporal variability in the marine copepod microbiome
PLoS ONE, 10, 733-744.

External links

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