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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