Personnel

Lab in Spring 2025

Pia H. Moisander

Professor of Biology

Professor of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences

pmoisander at umassd dot edu

Department of Biology

School of Marine Science – Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences

On sabbatical in Spring 2024: University of Helsinki, Department of Microbiology

Director, Biology Graduate Programs

 

Technical Associate & Graduate Students

 Adam Young, Technical Associate; PhD student – Integrative Biology

Continuous water quality instrumentation at the UMassD pier/Hypoxia and anoxia influencing microbial communities in coastal waters

Lucinda Manlick, MS student; Marine Biology

Metagenomic assessment of marine microbial communities associating with microplastics

 

Emma Steedman, MS student, Marine Biology

Spatio-temporal distribution of diazotrophs in the coastal North Atlantic Ocean

 

Alyssa Glycenfer, MS student; Marine Biology

Influence of nitrogen and energy sources on microbially influenced corrosion

 

Subham Chakraborty, MS student; Marine Biology

Influence of hydrocarbons on microbially influenced corrosion in complex marine communities

 

 

Undergraduate research students

 Chris Na Chiengmai; Biology undergraduate; Honors program

A biofilm reactor to assess novel materials for marine antifouling

 

 

Alumni – graduate students

Kenneth Boyle, MS in Marine Biology 2o24

Thesis: Marine biofilm community assembly is driven by seasonality in the Western North Atlantic Ocean

 

Abhishek Naik, PhD, Marine Science and Technology 2024. Dissertation: Marine biofilms on artificial structures as a model for microbial community succession and stability

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Connecticut (Marine Sciences) (NSF postdoctoral fellow)

 

Stephanie Richard, M.S., Marine Biology, 2023. Thesis: Impact of Climate Change on Copepod Microbiome

Current position: Research Assistant, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

 

Katyanne Shoemaker. PhD. Marine Science and Technology; M.S. in Marine Biology.

Current position: Research Biologist, NOAA

Ryan Nuttall. M.S. in Marine Science and Technology and M.S. in Marine Biology

Rosemary Scavotto. M.S. in Marine Biology

Sarah Holmes. M.S. in Marine Biology

Meaghan Daley. M.S. in Marine Science (UMass Boston) (co-advisee)

Fazmina Anver, Research Technician