Congratulations to MMG student and lab manager Paisley Samuel who has published the bulk of her MS thesis in Frontiers in Water for her first primary authored paper “Diversity fluctuations of the microbial community during annual Microcystis blooms within Lake Okeechobee, FL”. This is a personal milestone and capstone to our earlier Army Corps of Engineers project to characterize and better understand the nature and potential drivers of harmful cyanobacterial algae blooms (cHABs) in Lake Okeechobee (Lake O), the largest freshwater lake in the Southeast US. In this article Ms. Samuel has characterized the heterotrophic bacterial communities that co-exist and underly the cyanobacteria that embody the cHABs over the three year study period. Paisley is also a big NSU promoter having obtained degrees in marine biology and bioinformatics, and is currently embarking on her doctorate.
Lopez Lab @ NSU 