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Microbial oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, bacterioplankton dynamics, dissolved organic matter, carbon cycle.

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.

Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.

Plant-microbe evolution and ecology, microbial species diversity and taxonomy, evolution of symbiosis.

Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.

Soil and ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, soil organic matter.

Joy-centered pedagogy in biology education, equity-minded teacher professional development, epistemologies in STEM, accessible course-based research experiences, and all things fungal.

Our lab studies the microbial and viral ecology of marine and terrestrial species. We also conduct work specifically on marine conservation, aiming to better evaluate the unseen biodiversity of marine systems and to identify innovative solutions to the global declines of key marine species.

I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.