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Virginia P. Edgcomb CURRICULUM VITAE VIRGINIA P. EDGCOMB Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Current Position: Associate Scientist Department of Geology and Geophysics Tel: (508) 289-3734 220 McLean Lab, MS#8 Fax: (508) 457-2183 Woods Hole, MA 02543 e-mail: [email protected] GRADUATE EDUCATION 1997 Ph.D. Biology, University of Delaware (J. H. McDonald and D. W. Smith). Thesis title: Molecular Analysis of Spatial Heterogeneity of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Delaware Salt Marsh. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE/APPOINTMENTS 2014-Present Associate Scientist with Tenure, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 2009–2014 Research Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 2005–2009 Research Associate, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 2002–2004 Visiting Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 2000–2002 National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA. Project focused on an assessment of the potential habitat range of selected hydrothermal vent hyperthermophillic archaea-based laboratory tests of their tolerance to various stressors typical of subsurface conditions. This project was funded by a NASA Astrobiology Institute/NRC postdoctoral associateship awarded to V.E. in 2000 (advisor: A. Teske, WHOI/UNC Chapel Hill). 1999–2000 Staff Scientist—The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (with M.L. Sogin). 1998 University of Sydney, Australia. Visiting scholar, June-Sept. Protist isolation and cultivation from environmental samples, and electron microscopy (with D. Patterson). 1997–1999 Postdoctoral Fellow in The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution. Projects included; isolation of novel protists from extreme environments, expanding phylogenies of deep-branching eukaryotes based on small subunit rRNA and protein coding genes, examining diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms in extreme environments, particularly hydrothermal vent and other anaerobic freshwater and marine sediments using molecular and culture-based approaches (with M.L. Sogin). 1997 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Workshop on Molecular Evolution. 1997 United States Environmental Protection Agency Microbial Ecology Branch, Gulf Breeze, Florida. Visiting scholar working on molecular microbial ecology. AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS 2012 Seymour H. Hutner Prize in Protistology (awarded by International Society of Protistologists) 2001 NASA/NRC Astrobiology Institute Postdoctoral Associateship Award (admin. by the NRC renewal). 2000 NASA/NRC Astrobiology Institute Postdoctoral Associateship Award (admin. by the NRC). V. EDGCOMB – 1 1999 Award from Gordon Research Conferences to attend the 1999 Gordon Conference on Molecular Evolution in Hayama, Japan. 1997 Block Fellowship. A competitive fellowship awarded to a Biology Department graduate student in recognition of outstanding achievement, University of Delaware. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2002-present Part-time Life Science Teacher, Falmouth Academy, Falmouth, MA. 2003–2008 Lecturer and laboratory instructor for “Living in the Microbial World” secondary science teacher training workshops (NASA) Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. 1998 Course Assistant, Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. 1997 Course Instructor, University of Delaware-Microbiology. 1992–1997 Graduate teaching assistant, Department of Biology, University of Delaware. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • American Society of Microbiologists • International Society of Protistologists • American Society for Limnology and Oceanography • International Society for Microbial Ecology PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • President-elect 2014 International Society of Protistologists • Full Member: Science Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group on Microbial Community Responses to Ocean Deoxygenation (2014-2019) • EarthCube End User Domain Workshop for Deep-Sea Processes and Dynamics, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, June, 2013. • Moore Foundation Workshop on Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Oxygen-Deficient Marine Waters (OMZ) in Santa Cruz, Chile, 3/2013. • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology (2010-present) • Review Editor, Frontiers in Microbial Symbioses (2014-present) • Review Editor, Frontiers in Marine Molecular Biology and Ecology (2014-present) • Special Topics Editor, Deep Subsurface Microbiology, Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology (2012) • Editorial Advisor of New England Science Public Series on Evolution. • Special Topics Editor, Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments, Frontiers in Microbiology (2012) • Co-Chair of Special Session at Aquatic Sciences Meeting, New Orleans - Microbial Ecology of Hypersaline Habitats 2012 • Assoc. member SCOR Working Group 134 — Microbial Carbon Pump in the Ocean (2012) • Development of a WEB-based resource for COSEE NOW (Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, Networked Ocean World) to help scientists to prepare more effective Broader Impact Statements for NSF Criterion II, January, 2012 • NSF Panel on Shipboard Technical Services, February, 2012 V. EDGCOMB – 2 • Annual 2-day summer workshop on Marine Biotechnology for high school students, through the Weston High School Advanced Biotechnology Institute (2010 to present) • Initiated trimester internship program between Falmouth Academy high school students and WHOI science laboratories — first program year 2011-2012 • Participant in IODP “Building U.S. Strategies for 2013-2023 Scientific Ocean Drilling” workshop, Denver, CO 5/2012 • Dive and Discover Expeditions to the Seafloor — Expedition 14 (2011) • Chair, Nominating Committee, ISOP 2010-11 • Chair of Special Session at ASLO 2011, San Juan Puerto Rico — Protists in Extreme Environments: Beyond Diversity. • Session Leader C-DEBI RCN, Microbial activity, physiology, metabolism 2011 • Board of Directors, Zephyr Education Foundation 2010 to present • Education Advisory Committee for Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (2011 to present) • 2012-2015 WHOI Partnership Program • NSF Panel on Oceanographic Instrumentation/Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment, January 2010. • WHOI Women’s Committee (2010 to 2013) OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: MANUSCRIPT/PROPOSAL REVIEWER Nature Geosciences National Science Foundation Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology Limnology and Oceanography Molecular Biology and Evolution NASA Ecology Extremophiles Aquatic Microbial Ecology Environmental Microbiology Applied and Environmental Microbiology Protist Trends in Ecology and Evolution ISME Journal PNAS Microbial Ecology Frontiers FEMS Microbiology Letters Molecular Ecology Resources FEMS Microbial Ecology NEW TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Development of new technology for in situ studies in marine microbial ecology, the Microbial Sampler - Submersible Incubation Device, MS-SID) together with Craig Taylor (WHOI Biology) and McLane Research Laboratories, E. Falmouth, MA. Retrofitting and application of an older technology (Deep-SID) to in situ fixation of water samples for microscopy in Cariaco Basin with Craig Taylor (WHOI Biology). GROUP MEMBERS AND GUESTS CURRENT • Postdoc, Maria Pachiadaki, Oct. 2012 to present. V. EDGCOMB – 3 • Postdoc, Roxanne Beinart, Dec. 2013 to present. • Research Associate, David Beaudoin, assists on various research projects, 2006–present. • Dr. Sofia Ibarraran • Thesis committee member for PhD candidates Joseph Russell (U. Delaware, 2011-present), Elizabeth Suter (Stony Brook University 2013-present) GROUP MEMBERS AND GUESTS PAST • Dr. Konstantinos Kormas, sabbatical visitor 2013 • Postdoc, William T. Orsi, 2011– 2013. • PhD candidate Vanessa Redou, Laboratoire de Biodiversite et Ecologie Microbienne, ESMISAB, France, 2/2014-5/2014) and PhD committee member. • Masters candidate Manon Duret, Universite du Littoral, CNRS-UMR, France (1/2014-6/2014) • PhD candidate Emma Louise Rocke, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (6/2013- 12/2013-6/2013) and PhD committee member. • Joseph Russell, U. Delaware, in my laboratory 3/2012, Ph.D. committee member 2011-present. • Sophie Charvet, U. Laval, Canada, as Guest Graduate Student in my laboratory spring 2012. • Verena Salman, Max-Planck, Germany as Guest Investigator in my laboratory 8/1/2012–9/30/2012. • Gaëtan Burgaud, U. Brest, France as Guest Investigator 1/2011–5/2011. • Dr. Ankita Srivastava, 2013-14. • Summer Undergraduate Guest Students: Vincent Klokman from Univ. North Carolina, summer 2009; Anja Hickethier, Kaiserslautern University, Germany, spring 2010; Greg Gotta, St. Lawrence University, summer 2010; Brecia Douglas, Northeastern U., summer 2011; Colin Morrison, U. Nevada Reno (co-advised with J. Bernhard), summer 2012. • MS candidate Aimee Gillespie, MIT. Committee member and supervisor of her molecular microbial ecology work, 2011–2012. • PhD candidate William Orsi, Northeastern University. PhD committee member and co-supervisor with Slava Epstein (Northeastern U., his primary thesis advisor) of the environmental sequencing portion of his thesis project (2007-2011), and supervisor of his work on the E. Mediterranean “Pickled Protists” project, 2007–2011. • Undergraduate Research Fellows Simone Boer and Karen Lloyd, while working in Teske Lab on pressure, sulfide, heavy metal, and pH tolerance of deep-sea hyperthermophiles 2000-2002. • Technician, David Kysela, working on molecular survey of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments,
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