Debashish Bhattacharya

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• 2009-present Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• 2005-present Adjunct Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department

EDUCATION:
Prof. Bhattacharya received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and was a Sloan fellow with Mitch Sogin at MBL and a Humboldt Scholar in Cologne, Germany. Prior to coming to Rutgers, he was a Professor at the University of Iowa for 11 years.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Prof. Bhattacharya is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Phycology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My lab has a long-standing interest in algal/protist evolution and genomics and specific projects include elucidating the endosymbiotic origin of photosynthetic organelles (plastids), functional genomics of 'red tide'-causing dinoflagellates, erecting the eukaryotic tree of life, and studying microRNA evolution.

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