Dr. Alison Murray - Research Projects

Research Projects

Current Projects: Antarctic Microbial Biology
Lake Vida drilling

Website: Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme Aquatic Environment in Lake Vida, East Antarctica: Lake Vida III: Developing a comprehensive understanding of Lake Vida – from the past to the present – life, biogeochemical function, geochemical composition and paleohistory of its microbial inhabitants.

Icy world Website: Astrobiology of Icy Worlds (NASA Astrobiology Institute Program)
Past Projects: Antarctic Microbial Biology
View from Glacier

Website: IPY: Bacterioplankton Genomic Adaptations to Antarctic Winter

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Blue shades iceberg

Website: Free-Drifting Icebergs as Proliferating Dispersion Sites of Iron Enrichment, Organic Carbon Production and Export in the Southern Ocean

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Lake Vida camp

Subsurface ice and brine sampling: life detection and characterization in the McMurdo Dry Valleys using an ultrasonic gopher.

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Polaribacter irgensii

Genome Sequencing of two Antarctic bacteria – a marine Actinobacterium, str. PHSC20C1 and a sea-ice associated bacterium, Polaribacter irgensii, 23-P. (Supported by the Marine Microbiology Initiative Program at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)

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penguins

 GenEx 2 - Gene Expression in Extreme Environments: Extending Microarray Technology to Understand Life at its Limits (Supported by the NSF- LExEn program - LexEn Website

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Genome Maps

Environmental genomics of Antarctic marine bacterioplankton using a large-contig sequencing approach.

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Past Projects: Hydrothermal Microbial Biology
Alvinella

Vent Epibiont Environmental Genome (VEEG) - A meta-genome level analysis of an extreme microbial symbiosis.

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Mammoth Hot Springs

Geobiology and the emergence of terraced architecture during carbonate mineralization.

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