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Emily Schmeltzer

Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology

Emily Schmeltzer

Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology

Research

My research interests lie in marine microbial ecology on tropical coral reefs, specifically how coral-associated microbial communities from different coral host species respond to nutrient enrichment, coral bleaching events, predation pressures, and varying anthropogenic impacts. I spend my time doing a combination of fieldwork, labwork, and programming and bioinformatics to analyze both high-throughput metagenomics and amplicon data.