Jody W. Deming’s Ecosystem

University of Washington, School of Oceanography

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People

  • Jody W. Deming
    Phone: (206) 543-0845
    E-mail: jdeming@u.washington.edu
    Address: University of Washington
    School of Oceanography
    Seattle WA 98185
    Campus Mailbox: 357940
    Office: 370 MSB (map)

Current Graduate Students

  • R. Eric Collins, (CONGRATULATIONS! Eric passed his final examination for PhD on 9/9/2009!)
    studying wintertime Arctic sea ice community succession and the potential for gene exchange using molecular methods, as part of the international CASES and CFL projects supported by NSF, Sea Grant and the UW Astrobiology Program, rec3141@u.washington.edu
  • Colleen T. E. Kellogg, (CONGRATULATIONS! New publication: AME Vol. 57:1-18, 2009)
    studying microbial diversity and extracellular enzyme activity associated with particles on Arctic shelves, supported by NSF and an NSF graduate student fellowship, ctebean@u.washington.edu
  • Marcela Ewert Sarmiento,
    studying ice selection of exopolymers and microbes, supported by a Vatican Observatory fellowship in Astrobiology and the School of Oceanography, she is working on outreach projects at the Pacific Science Center and the Virtual Planetary Laboratory mewerts@u.washington.edu
  • Jeff Bowman, (11/17/2009 BIOLUNCH, 11:30 123 MSB, “Evaluating frost flowers as a microbial habitat: Implications for psychrophile physiology, sea ice surface chemistry, and the wind driven transport of bacteria”.)
    studying survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold, salty environments, supported by NSF-IGERT and the UW Astrobiology Program, bowmanjs@u.washington.edu
  • Jesse Colangelo-Lillis,
    studying cold adapted bacteriophage systems, supported by NSF-IGERT and the UW Astrobiology Program, jrcl@u.washington.edu

Recent Postdoctoral Associates

  • Joseph G. Marx,
    currently with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; studied exopolymer and enzyme production by Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H under extreme conditions in the Deming Lab, jgmarx@gmail.com
  • Karen Junge,
    currently at the UW Applied Physics Lab Polar Science Center, studied bacterial activity at subzero temperatures in the Deming Lab, kjunge@apl.washington.edu
  • Christopher Krembs,
    currently lead Oceanographer at the Washington State Department of Ecology; studied exopolymers in sea ice in the Deming Lab,
    christopherkrembs@hotmail.com

Current Research Staff

  • Shelly Carpenter,
    Research Scientist/Engineer IV/Lab Manager, seashell@u.washington.edu

Former Lab Members