There are several advantages you should consider as a potential researcher in the Giovannoni Laboratory at Oregon State University:
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Collaborative opportunities with faculty from OSU's College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences (COAS), the fifth largest oceanographic institution in the US. COAS provides an intellectual environment and a variety of services that enable us to keep our molecular and microbiological investigations closely linked to oceanographic questions.
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Ready access to OSU's research vessels, including the R/V Elakha. Oceanographic sampling is easily scheduled, and the dock is only an hour away from the laboratory.
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The High Throughput Cultivation (HTC) Laboratory, a part of the Giovannoni laboratory, provides incubators, microscopy, flow cytometry cell counting, cryo-storage, and medium preparation facilities and equipment for the isolation, cultivation and study of oligotrophic microorganisms.
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Molecular biological analysis support from OSU's CGRB Core Laboratories. The Core Laboratory facility is a well-staffed, modern laboratory that provides services such as DNA sequencing, Genescan analyses, confocal microscopy, real-time PCR, Illumina sequencing, and microarray technologies.
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Custom bioinformatics tools and databases are installed and maintained on local servers by staff of the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB). Staff scientists of the CGRB maintain a relatively advanced computing cluster and are intellectually involved in projects, rather than simply providing technical support.
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The nearby and well-equipped mass spectrometry laboratory for proteomics research is operated by our close collaborator, Dr. Doug Barofsky. Barofsky, a leader in the development of mass spectrometry instrumentation, is co-inventor of the tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometer. He is the co-advisor of graduate students studying the physiology of bacterioplankton.
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A long-term NSF-supported research project with Dr. Craig Carlson of UCSB and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences provides access to laboratory facilities and samples from the Western Sargasso Sea. We have been, and will continue, collecting monthly samples from the BATS site for long-term monitoring of bacterioplankton communities. Dr. Carlson is an expert in the oceanography of dissolved organic carbon and a frequent co-author on work from our laboratory.
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A cooperative and stimulating environment in the laboratory provides researchers with help to pursue creative and novel ideas. The presence of a group of well-trained undergraduates helps ensure that the laboratory is organized, safe and has the human resources to support experiments that have a high workload requirement.
