ALR Lab

Our lab studies the microbial ecology of high temperature terrestrial hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents. We are interested in global patterns of microbial biodiversity in these ecosystems and use the observations to study the physiological ecology and diversity of key thermophilic populations. We use a combination of classical cultivation, molecular phylogenetic and molecular ecological approaches to address fundamental questions about ecosystems that are so tightly connected to the geology and geochemistry of their environment.