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	Linda Amaral Zettler Associate Research Scientist
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Current projects:

From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems
Funded by NASA, 2003-10-01 to 2008-10-31.

Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health
Funded by NSF/NIH, 2004-02-16 to 2009-04-30.

International Census of Marine Microbes
Funded by Sloan Foundation, 2004-11-01 to 2006-10-30.

Education:

1986-1990	Sc.B. Aquatic Biology	Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Second major: Chinese Language
1991-1996	Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography	Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cambridge/Woods Hole, Massachusetts Thesis: A molecular approach to questions in the phylogeny of planktonic sarcodines.
1996-1998	Postdoctoral Fellow	Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
1998-2000	NIH/NSRA Postdoctoral Fellow	Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Academic appointments:

2000-present	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York
2000-2001	Staff Scientist	Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2002-present	Assistant Research Scientist	Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2005-present	Assistant Professor (MBL)	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI

Professional memberships:

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
American Museum of Natural History
Society of Protozoologists
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Distinctions and awards:

1989	Woods Hole Oceanogrpahic Institution Summer Fellowship
1986-1990	Brown University National Scholarship Albert Arnold Bennett, Class of 1872 Award for excellence in Biology
1991-1996	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Scurlock Funds for research at the Bermuda Biological Station Grant-In-Aid Award for research at Bermuda Biological Station American Museum of Natural History Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research, Woods Hole Coastal Research Center Grant Award
1998-2000	National Research Service Award

Other activities:

Present	Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Alumni Committee
2004-present	Secretariat, International Census of Marine Microbes
2004-present	Education and Outreach Coordinator, International Census of Marine Microbes

Publications:

Caron, D. A., Sanders, R. W., Lim, E. L., Marras , C., Amaral, L. A., Whitney, S., Aoki, R. B. & Porter, K. G.: Light-Dependent Phagotrophy in the Freshwater Mixotrophic Chrysophyte Dinobryon cylindricum, Microbial Ecology, 25:93-111 (1993).

Lim, E. L., Amaral, L. A., Caron, D. A., & DeLong, E.F.: Application of rRNA-Based Probes for Observing Marine Nanoplanktonic Protists, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 59(5):1647-1655 (1993).

Amaral Zettler, L., M.L. Sogin and D.A. Caron: Phylogenetic relationships between the Acantharea and the Polycystinea: A molecular perspective on Haeckel s Radiolaria, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 94:11411-11416 (1997).

Amaral Zettler, L. A., Anderson, O. R., & Caron, D. A.: Insights on the diversity within a "species" of Thalassicolla (Spumellarida) based on 16S-like Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequencing, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 45(5):488-496 (1998).

Amaral Zettler, L. A., Anderson, O. R., & Caron, D. A.: Towards a molecular phylogeny of colonial spumellarian radiolaria, Marine Micropaleontology, 36:67-79 (1999).

Anderson, O. R., Gastrich, M. D. & Amaral Zettler, L. A.: Fine structure of the colonial radiolarian Collozoum serpentinum (Polycystinea: Spumellarida) with consideration of its taxonomic status and the recommendation for the reestablishment of the genus Collophidium (Haeckel), Marine Micropaleontology, 36:81-89 (1999).

Amaral Zettler, L. A. & Caron, D. A.: New insights into the phylogeny of the Acantharea based on SSU rRNA gene sequencing, European Journal of Protistology, 36:34-39 (2000).

Amaral Zettler, L.A., O.R. Anderson, T.A. Nerad and M.L. Sogin: The phylogenetic position of Comandonia operculata and its implications for the taxonomy of the genus Acanthamoeba, in IXth International Meeting on the Biology and Pathogenicity of Free-Living Amoebae Proceedings, ed. S. Billot-Bonef, P.A. Cabanes, F. Marciano-Cabral, P. Pernin, E. Pringuez, John Libbey Eurotext, Paris, France, 235-242 (2000).

Amaral Zettler, L.A., T.A. Nerad, C.J. O Kelly, M.T. Peglar, P.M. Gillevet, J.D. Silberman, and M.L. Sogin: A molecular reassessment of the Leptomyxid amoebae, Protist, 151:275-282 (2000).

Amaral Zettler, L.A., T.A. Nerad, C.J. O Kelly and M.L. Sogin: The nucleariid amoebae: More protists at the animal-fungal boundary, J. Euk. Microbiol, 48:293-297 (2001).

Amaral Zettler, L. A., F. Gomez, Zettler, E., B.G. Keenan, R. Amils, M.L. Sogin (2002). Microbiology: eukaryotic diversity in Spain's River of Fire. Nature 417(6885): 137.

Edgcomb, V.P., A.G.B. Simpson, L. A. Amaral Zettler, T.A. Nerad, D. J. Patterson, M.E. Holder and M.L. Sogin: Pelobionts are Degenerate Protists: Insights from Molecules and Morphology, Mol. Biol. Evol, 19:978-982 (2002).

Amaral Zettler, L.A., M.A. Messerli, A.D. Laatsch, P.J.S. Smith, and M. L. Sogin: From Genes to Genomes: Beyond biodiversity in Spain s Rio Tinto, Biol. Bull., 204:205-209 (2003).

Medina, M., A.G. Collins, J.W. Taylor, J. W. Valentine, J.H. Lipps, L. Amaral Zettler, & M. L. Sogin: Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity and complexity in Fungi and Metazoa, International Journal of Astrobiology, 2:203-211 (2003).

O'Kelly, C. J., J. D. Silberman, L. A. Amaral Zettler, T. A. Nerad, & M. L. Sogin: Monopylocystis visvesvarai and Sawyeria marylandensis: Two New Amitochondrial Heterolobosean Amoebae from Anoxic Environments, Protist, 154:281-290 (2003).

Peglar, M.T., L.A. Amaral Zettler, O.R. Anderson, T.A. Nerad, P.M. Gillevet, T.E. Mullen, S. Frasca, Jr., J.D. Silberman, C.J. O Kelly and M. Sogin: Two New Small-Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Lineages within the Subclass Gymnamoebia, J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 50:224-232 (2003).

Amaral Zettler, L. A., Laatsch, A. D., Zettler, E. R., Nerad, T. A., Cole, J., Chavarria Diaz, F., Diaz, J., Janzen, D. H., Sittenfeld, A., Mason, O., and Reysenbach, A-L.: A Microbial Observatory of Caterpillars: Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Protists Associated with the Saturniid Moth Caterpillar Rothschildia Lebeau, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 52(2):107-115 (2005).

Amils R., Gonz lez-Toril, E., G mez F., Fern nadez-Remolar, D., Rodr guez N., Malki, M., Aguilera, A., and Amaral-Zettler, L.A.: Chemolithotrophy for early life on Earth: The Tinto River (Iberian Pyritic Belt) case, in Origins, ed. J. Seckbach , Kluwer Publishers, The Netherlands, In press (2005).

Messerli, M. A., Amaral Zettler, L. A., Zettler, E. Jung, S-K, Smith, P. J. S. & M. L. Sogin.: Life at acidic pH imposes an increased energetic cost for a Eukaryotic Acidophile. , Journal of Experimental Biology, 208(13):2569-2579 (2005).

Aguilera, A., Amaral Zettler, L. A., Souza-Egipsy, V., Zettler, E., and Amils, R. Eukaryotic community structure from Rio Tinto (SW, Spain), a highly acidic river In. (ed. Seckbach, J.), Extremophilic algae, cyanobacteria and non-photosynthetic protists: From Prokaryotes to Astrobiology. 2006. In press.

D’Andrea, W. J., Lage, M., Martiny, J. B. H,. Laatsch, A.D., Amaral-Zettler, L. A., Sogin, M.L., and Y. Huang. 2006. Alkenone producers inferred from well-preserved 18S rDNA in Greenland lake sediments. J. Geophys. Res. 111, G03013, doi:10.1029/2005JG000121.

Amaral-Zettler, L. A., Cole, J., Laatsch, A. D., Nerad, T. A., Anderson, O. R. & Reysenbach, A-L., 2006. Vannella epipetala n. sp. Isolated from the Leaf Surface of Spondias mombin (Anacardiaceae) Growing in the Dry Forest of Costa Rica. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 53(6):522-530.

Hutchison, L. Mustard, J., Gendrin, A., Fernández-Remolar, D., Amils, R., and Amaral-Zettler, L. 2006. Finding Mineralogically Interesting Targets for Exploration from Spatially Coarse Visible and Near IR Spectra. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 252: 201-214.

Aguilera, A., Zettler, E., Gomez. F., Amaral-Zettler, L., Rodriguez, N. and R. Amils. Distribution and seasonal variability in the benthic eukaryotic community of Rio Tinto (SW, Spain), an acidic, high metal extreme environment. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 30 (2007) 531-546.

Sinigalliano, C.D., Gidley, M.L., Shibata, T., Whitman, D., Dixon, T.H., Laws, E., Hou, A., Bachoon, D., Brand, L., Amaral-Zettler, L., Gast, R., Steward, G. F., Nigro, O. D., Fujioka, R., Betancourt,W.Q., Vithanage, G., Mathews, J., Fleming, L.E., Solo-Gabriele, H. M. 2007. Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on the Microbial Landscape of the New Orleans Area. PNAS. 104 (21): 9029-9034 doi:10.1073/pnas.0610552104

Amaral Zettler, L. A., Peplies, J., Ramette, A. Fuchs, B., Ludwig, W., and Glšckner, F. O., Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ribosomal RNA Technology, April 7-9, 2008, Bremen, Germany, 2008. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 31(4): 258-268.

San Gil, I., Sheldon,W., Schmidt, T., Servilla, M., Aguilar, R., Gries, C., Gray, T., Field, D., Cole, J., Yun Pan, J., Palanisamy, G., Henshaw, D., O'Brien, M., Kinkel, L., McMahon, K., Kottmann, R., Amaral-Zettler, L., Hobbie, J., Goldstein, P., Guralnick, R. P., Brunt, J., and Michener W. K., Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes. 2008. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology,12(2):151-156.

Amaral-Zettler L A, Rocca J D, LaMontagne, M G, Dennett M R, Gast R J (2008) Changes in microbial community structure in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Environmental Science and Technology 42: 9072-9078.

Palacios C, Zettler E, Amils R, Amaral-Zettler L (2008) Contrasting Microbial Community Assembly Hypotheses: A Reconciling Tale from the Rio Tinto. PLoS ONE 3(12): e3853. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003853

Stewart, J. R., Gast, R. J., Fujioka, R. S., Solo-Gabriele, H. M., Meschke, J. S., Amaral-Zettler, L. A., Del Castillo, E., Polz, M. F., Collier, TK, Strom, M. S., Sinigalliano, C. D., Moeller P. D. R. and Holland, A. F. 2008. The coastal environment and human health: Microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs. Environmental Health 7(Suppl):S3.

Supported by NIH, NSF, NASA, The Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, and Ellison Medical Foundation.
Unless otherwise stated, all material © 2004 Bay Paul Center, MBL.