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. Scroll down to the News section to see what is currently going on in the lab!

To study these, 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. And we always try to get out to the field to sample from boats and docks as much as possible!

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, you are encouraged to contact Dr. Damashek at any time. We are always looking for more help on current projects and are excited to talk about potential future projects or collaborations, even if they are different from what we work on now.

Please click through the links at the top of the page to learn more about who we are, what we do, and what we have published.