Welcome to Julian Damashek’s Aquatic Microbial ‘Omics, Ecology, and Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene (AMOEBA) lab!

The AMOEBA lab is now a part of of Riverkeeper, where Julian is a Water Quality Scientist. We study aquatic microbes and how they microbes affect ecosystem processes, water quality, and public health. Primary projects focus on nutrient cycling, fecal contamination, and uncultivated archaea. We use tools from biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, ecological statistics, and multi-’omic bioinformatics, which allows our questions to span a range of scales, from genes to cells to microbial populations to ecosystems.

Check out the Lab News section to see what’s been going on recently!

If you are a student, educator, or research interested in ecology, microbiology, limnology, oceanography, (meta)genomics, or computational biology - or anything else related to microbes, nutrients, or water - read through the information about our projects, then go look at some of our recent publications. If you are still interested in joining the lab, you are encouraged to contact Dr. Damashek at any time.