Richard A. Long Assistant Professor Biological Sciences and Marine Sciences Ph.D., 2001, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 803-777-2531 rlong@biol.sc.edu Lab Web Page <> Environmental Microbiology

Research Interests:

• Marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry.
• Application of genomics and systems biology to microbial ecology.
• Bacterial-mediated transformation of organic marine particles-? microns to macroaggregates.
• Microbial interactions and communication.
• Ecology of waterborne pathogens.
• Aquatic bacteria as sources of natural products.

Active and Future Projects:

• Examination of the role of antibiosis in structuring bacterial species composition at the micrometer scale. (David Rowley, URI)
• Bacteria and Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico (Steve DiMarco and Robert Hetland, TAMU)
• Microbial Ecology in Anahaline Caves of the Bahamas (Tom Illife, TAMUG)
• Microbial Interactions in Microbial Mats of the Bahamas (Jay Pinckney, TAMU; Hans Paerl, UNC, Alan Decho USC)
• Survival of human pathogens in marine environment

Selected Publications: Click Here