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* 2014 Institute of the Environment Travel Award ($500) | * 2014 Institute of the Environment Travel Award ($500) | ||
==Affiliations== | ==Professional Affiliations== | ||
* American Geophysical Union (AGU) | * American Geophysical Union (AGU) | ||
* American Society for Microbiology (ASM) | * American Society for Microbiology (ASM) | ||
* American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) | * American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) | ||
* United States Permafrost Association (USPA) | |||
* International Permafrost Association (IPA) | * International Permafrost Association (IPA) | ||
* American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | * American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | ||
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* When I'm indoors, I enjoy playing classical and jazz piano, writing, and reading novels. Occasionally, I re-visit works by Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, and Kurt Gödel. | * When I'm indoors, I enjoy playing classical and jazz piano, writing, and reading novels. Occasionally, I re-visit works by Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, and Kurt Gödel. | ||
* I also like fixing and riding bicycles. | * I also like fixing and riding bicycles. | ||
* In the summer of 2011, I biked across the country from Huntington Beach, CA to Jacksonville, FL. I also volunteered in national parks, soup kitchens, and animal sanctuaries along the way :) | * In the summer of 2011, I biked across the country from Huntington Beach, CA to Jacksonville, FL. I also volunteered in national parks, soup kitchens, and animal sanctuaries along the way :) [[Image:KCD_Pup.jpg|thumb|right|I saved a puppy while biking through Texas and found him a home. I named him "Clark"]] | ||
* In the summer of 2012, I through-hiked the Appalachian Trail (Springer Mt., Georgia --> Mt. Katahdin, Maine). My trail name was "Swivel". | * In the summer of 2012, I through-hiked the Appalachian Trail (Springer Mt., Georgia --> Mt. Katahdin, Maine). My trail name was "Swivel". | ||
Revision as of 17:49, 21 November 2014
Contact Info
- Kristine C. de Leon
- University of Arizona
- Saguaro Hall Rm.315
- 1110 E. South Campus
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- kdeleon{at}email.arizona.edu
I work in the Rich Lab in the University of Arizona. I learned about OpenWetWare Through my PI.
Education
- 2014 - current, PhD student, University of Arizona: Soil, Water, & Environmental Science
- BA Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
- Environmental Microbiology
- Proteomics and Metaproteomics
- Biochemistry: Enzymes
- Permafrost Thaw
- The role of microbial ecology in ecosystem scale responses to global change
- Microbial genomics and biogeochemical cycling
Current Projects
- Genes, isotopes, and ecosystem biogeochemistry: dissecting methane flux at the leading edge of global change. Department of Energy project led by Scott Saleska and Virginia Rich, with collaborators: Gene Tyson (University of Queensland), Patrick Crill (Stockholm University), Jeff Chanton (Florida State University), Changsheng Li and Steven Frolking (University of New Hampshire).
Broadly, I am interested in using metagenomics and metaproteomics to understand the role of microbial communities in biogeochemical cycling. More specifically, I am interested in investigating how microbial community composition and function scale to ecosystem biogeochemistry of CH4 and CO2, and how such scaling is affected by climate change. To accomplish this, I am coupling molecular microbial ecology to biogeochemistry and modeling, in order to link microbes, genes, transcripts and proteins with biogeochemical processes and ecosystem fluxes.
I am currently working on the optimization of metaproteomic methods for permafrost samples collected in Abisko, Sweden.
I am also looking into whether syntrophic acetate-oxidizing microbes contribute to patterns of methanogenesis observed with thawing permafrost in Stordalen Mire, Sweden.
Publications
- Ferguson, D.M., Weisberg S., Griffith, J., Hagedorn, C., de Leon, K., Mofidi, V., Wolfe, J., Zimmerman, M, Jay, J. Clonal Enterococcus strains found on eelgrass (Zostera marina) indicates amplification of enterococci in a marine environment (In prep).
Awards
- 2014 University of Arizona, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Graduate Fellowship
- 2014 Institute of the Environment Travel Award ($500)
Professional Affiliations
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
- American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)
- United States Permafrost Association (USPA)
- International Permafrost Association (IPA)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
- Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science (ANAS)
- Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN)
Hobbies
- I love being outdoors, especially being on top of mountains. I enjoy hiking, backpacking, and rock climbing. Living in the desert is quite the perfect environment for such activities :)
- When I'm indoors, I enjoy playing classical and jazz piano, writing, and reading novels. Occasionally, I re-visit works by Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, and Kurt Gödel.
- I also like fixing and riding bicycles.
- In the summer of 2011, I biked across the country from Huntington Beach, CA to Jacksonville, FL. I also volunteered in national parks, soup kitchens, and animal sanctuaries along the way :)
I saved a puppy while biking through Texas and found him a home. I named him "Clark" - In the summer of 2012, I through-hiked the Appalachian Trail (Springer Mt., Georgia --> Mt. Katahdin, Maine). My trail name was "Swivel".
