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Personnel of the Christner Research Group
Principle Investigator: Brent C. Christner
xner@lsu.edu
Office: (225) 578-1734
Lab: (225) 578-6230
Curriculum Vitae
M.S., Microbiology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1996.
Ph.D., Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2002.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Markus Dieser
Greenland Meltwater Geomicrobiology
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.S., Biology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 2000
M.S., Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 2003.
Ph.D., Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2009.
Research Associate: Patricia C. Arbour-Reily
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.S., Zoology, Louisiana State University, 1977.
M.S., Food Science, Louisiana State University, 1983.
Graduate Student Researcher: Shawn Doyle
Antarctic field team: 2007-08 and 2009-10
Shawn's field blog
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.S., Microbiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2008
Ph.D. (in progress), Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Graduate Student Researcher: Erik Broemsen
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, 2005
B.S., Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, 2009
Ph.D. (in progress), Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Graduate Student Researcher: Amanda Achberger
WISSARD
Antarctic field team: 2009-10
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.S., Microbiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2010 (anticipated)
Ph.D. (in progress), Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Graduate Student Fellow: Noelle Bryan
LaSPACE Fellow
MARSLIFE
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.A., University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA, 2003
Ph.D. (in progress), Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Graduate Student Researcher: Syed-Bilal Jilani
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.Sc. (Honors), Biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 2004
M.Sc., Biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 2006
M.S., Clarion University, PA, 2011
Ph.D. (in progress), Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Undergraduate Student Researcher: Peyton Adkins
LaSPACE Undergraduate Scholar (LURA Program)
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellow
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2013 (anticipated)
Undergraduate Student Researcher: Sahiti Kilaru
Office: (225) 578-8059
Lab: (225) 578-6230
B.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2012 (anticipated)
Former lab members
Postdoctoral Researcher: Pierre Amato
Antarctic field team: 2007-08
Ph.D., Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-ferrand, France, 2006.
Research Scientist at the Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-ferrand. Synthesis and Study of Systems of Biological Interest (SEESIB)
Graduate Student Researcher: Rongman Cai
B.S., Civil Engineering, Hunan University, P.R.China, June 2001
M.S., Civil Engineering, Hunan University, P.R.China, June 2004
M.Ap.Stat., Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2007
Ph.D. (in progress), Bioinformatics and Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Vinatzer Lab at Virginia Tech
Undergraduate Student Researcher: Michelle Nguyen
B.S., Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2011
Undergraduate Student Researcher: Charles Taggart
B.S., Biological Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2008
Currently a researcher at Gentris