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

We study microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems and how these microbes affect vital ecosystem processes, including all sorts of questions related to microbes, nutrients, and/or water. Out primary interests are nitrogen cycling, archaea, and water quality. We use tools from microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and bioinformatics. This array of interdisciplinary methods allows our questions to span a wide range of scales, from genes to cells to microbial populations to entire ecosystems.

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

If you are a student interested in ecology, microbiology, limnology, oceanography, 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.