Rob Lampe joined PriME in early 2022 as a PhD student in Andrew Allen’s lab. His research focused on how phytoplankton respond to changes in their environment and how these impact the composition of phytoplankton communities, using a combination of field-based experimentation, oceanographic surveys, and culture-based experiments.
Rob has recently defended his thesis “Environmental Genomic Investigations of Phytoplankton in the California Current Ecosystem” and has been awarded a Simons postdoctoral fellowship. In March 2025, he will join Mak Saito’s lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to work on the quantifying and modeling micronutrient utilization in marine eukaryotic phytoplankton.
Thank you for your contribution to PriME, Rob – we wish you all the best for your exciting future!🌊