Monthly Meetings

October Speaker 

    Our November DVPS Meeting will be held Sunday afternoon, November 9th at 3 PM in the theater of the Edelman Fossil Museum, 66 Million Mosasaur Way, Sewell, NJ.  It will also be shown on Google Meet.  Information to access the Google Meet link for this meeting will be provided by email a day or two in advance.

Our speaker will be Dr. Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez.  Dr. Pérez-Rodríguez is a geomicrobiologist working as assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). She has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, where she is originally from, and a Ph.D. in Microbial Ecology from Rutgers. Before arriving at Penn, Ileana worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and as Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California.

The microbiology of life from basaltic environments is relevant to understanding key properties of unicellular growth and habitability. Through Iliana’s research activities, she has explored links between quantitative microbial traits – like cell size, genome length, growth rate, respiration rate, and optimal laboratory growth conditions, among others – as a way to identify environmental controls governing the realized phenotypes behind anaerobic chemosynthetic metabolisms. Using a combination of experimental approaches ranging from batch and continuous cultivation, to analytical geochemistry, and statistical comparisons associated with metabolism-based phenotypes, her research group has identified important relationships between microbial metabolism, cell physiology and environment. Results to date contribute fundamental understanding of the physiologies shaping distinct microbial guilds, while guiding predictions of microbial growth behaviors and their application in applied bioprocesses.

     Her talk is titled, “The metabolic phenotypes of microbes from basaltic environments”.

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