Who we are...

Current lab members

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Allison R. Rober

Principal Investigator
I am interested in the environmental controls on algal community structure and the role of microbial biofilms in ecosystem processes.

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Mousumi Das

Ph.D. Student
Mousumi will be joining the lab as an OSU distinguished fellow and will be exploring the influence of toxic cyanobacteria blooms on ecosystem function.

Kate Zaparaniuk

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kate is an honors student evaluating the prevalence of different microcystin variants associated with toxic cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Erie.

Camran Cupp

Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) undergraduate researcher
Camran is visiting the lab from Texas A&M Corpus Christi and is evaluating temporal variation in algal community structure associated with different substrate types in urban wetlands.