https://oceanexpert.org/expert/slick

Ph.D. Marine Science

Research

Biological Oceanography
Marine Ecology

My Ph.D. research focused on marine bacteriophage-host systems. I concentrated on a system with a Vibrio parahaemolyticus and 200+ phages which infect it. Using this system I have studied temporal and spatial genetic diversity of marine viral isolates, ultraviolet radiation resistance studies, and attempted to quantify transduction of bacterial genes. I am currently an environmental microbiologist for the Federal Government. My laboratory works on the microbial ecology of both shallow and deep-sea corals.

Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean

Coral microbial ecology (deep-sea corals and tropical), Marine microbiology, Bacteriophage-host systems, Marine viruses, Molecular biology

English

http://profile.usgs.gov/ckellogg

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/coral-microbes/