Alice Jenks
Graduate Students
Graduate Program in Oceanography
Graduate Student
DMCS
Short Bio:
I grew up on the Long Island Sound, where I discovered my love for the ocean. I attended Farmingdale State College for my undergraduate studies where I majored in Bioscience and received a minor in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, I studied the filtering capabilities of marine sponges in relation to wastewater introduced by terrestrial run off. In addition to this, I performed pathogen screenings on farmed sugar kelp. Through previous studies, I gained a broad interest in using molecular techniques to study microbial ecology in the ocean. As a graduate student, my goal is to use molecular techniques to delineate the mechanism of coccolith shedding in Emiliania huxleyi and determine which proteins/lipids are involved in that process.