Geomicrobiology Group
Lab Members
Mihaela Glamoclija
I am an Associate Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University - Newark. I received my PhD from the International Research School of Planetary Sciences at Universita' d'Annnunzio (Pescara, Italy) and my BS is from Belgrade University (Belgrade, Serbia).
I am very interested in modern and fossil extreme environments, geomicrobiology, astrobiology and planetary geology. The main goals of my research are to understand the ways modern microbial communities modify their environment and to decipher types of biosignatures they may leave behind. I am also very interested in figuring out how microbial communities and their biosignatures change through fossilization processes.
You may find my CV - HERE and may contact me at m.glamoclija at rutgers.edu
Ashley Murphy
Ashley is our former graduate student and currently a visiting scholar at Rutgers University. She holds a postdoctoral position at PSI and is part of SHERLOC, M2020 team. Her research interests include the changes of biosignatures and textures in rocks over geologic time, and what implications this has regarding the search for life on Mars. Ashley is particularly interested in dolomitization and metamorphic changes in geologically old carbonate bearing rocks and how this relates to biosignature preservation.
You can contact Ashley at aem240 at scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Ifeoma Ugwuanyi
Ifeoma is a graduate student and her research interests include understanding how extremophiles respond to chemical variation in their environment, their ecosystem functions, and the different mechanisms that extremophiles use to survive extreme conditions. Ifeoma is also interested in data science and spends her spare time playing with data using R.
You can contact Ifeoma at iru1 at scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Sebastian Plasencia
Sebastian is an undergraduate student in our department and is currently working on Nitrogen cycling trends at continental hydrothermal sites. He is building a database of chemical parameters and will be linking them to molecular sequencing data. Sebastian is interested in statistical analyses and machine learning applications to better understand nutrient cycling in hydrothermal systems.
Alumni:
2021: Graduate Students:
Ashley Murphy (Postdoc @ PSI)
Undergraduate Students:
Tanisha Flats
2019: Postdocs:
Allison Enright (Assistant Professor @ Uni. of New Brunswick)
Undergraduate Students:
Joceline Fuentes-Maya
Sebastian Plasencia
Highschool Student:
Anamaria Popovska
2018: Undergraduate Students:
Audrey Miller
Suah Yekeh (graduate student @ RU-N)
2017: Postdocs:
Kosala Sirisena (Senior Lecturer @ Uni. of Sri Jayewardenepura)
Graduate Students:
Steven Ramirez
Undergraduate Students:
Allison Waldron
Carlos Macazana
2016: Postdocs:
Inoka Widanamagamage (@ Uni. of Mississippi)
Undergraduate Students:
Brittany Washington
2015: Undergraduate Students:
Nancy Padilla
Mousa Zeidan
Steven Potochniak
