Lab Members

Dr. Erin Field
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University
Email: fielde14@ecu.edu

Interests: Metal-microbe interactions, biocorrosion, water treatment, contaminant mobility, microbial community interactions, and microbial genomics.

Chequita Brooks
PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences (IDPBS)
Email: brooksch16@students.ecu.edu

Interests: Iron-oxidizing bacteria and the environmental factors that impact their role in biogeochemical cycling as part of microbial communities.

Cody Garrison
PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences (IDPBS)
Email: garrisonc16@students.ecu.edu

Interests: Integrating traditional bench-top microbiology with genomics to study microbial influenced corrosion.

Kyra Price
MS Student, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MBBT)
Email: price15@students.ecu.edu

Interests: Microbial communities associated with different metal alloys and their potential role in microbial influenced corrosion.

Kyle Swanson
MS Student, Biology
Email: swansonky18@students.ecu.edu

Interests: The microbial impact on the host-parasite interaction of a native crab host and an invasive barnacle.

Seth Gibbons
MS Student, Biology
Email: gibbonss18@students.ecu.edu

Interests: Environmental DNA quantification of North Carolina River Herring spawning populations.

Anna Koirala
Undergraduate, BS Biology
Email: koiralaa19@students.ecu.edu

Interests: Microbial adaptation and stress response to emerging environmental conditions

Samantha Gallien
Undergraduate, BS Chemistry
Email: galliens17@students.ecu.edu

Interests: Conservation biology of North Carolina species through the use of environmental DNA (eDNA)