College of Charleston Summer REU Program

Faculty Mentors

Dan Bearden
Research interests: Marine metabolomics, molecular structure and function, environmental analytical chemistry
Position – Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Karen Burnett
Research interests: Immunology, cell biology
Position – Agency: Research Associate, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
Email: burnettk@cofc.edu – homepage

Lou Burnett
Research interests: Environmental physiology
Position – Agency: Professor of Biology, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
Email: burnettl@cofc.edu – homepage

Yasmine Bottein
Research interests: Monitoring & toxicology of ciguatoxins and other marine biotoxins
Position – Agency: Toxicologist, Marine Biotoxins Program, NOAA, Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research
Email: Marie-Yasmine.Bottein@noaa.gov

Robert Chapman
Research interests: Fisheries, genetics, population biology
Position – Agency: Marine Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Email: chapmanr@dnr.sc.gov

Marie DeLorenzo
Research interests: Environmental toxicology
Position – Agency: Marine Ecotoxicology Program, NOAA, National Ocean Service
Email: marie.delorenzo@noaa.gov

Jack DiTullio
Research interests: Phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeochemical cycling
Position – Agency: Professor, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
Email: ditullioj@cofc.edu

Greg Doucette
Research interests: Physiological ecology of marine phytoplankton, marine biotoxins and harmful algae
Position – Agency: NOAA/National Ocean Service
Email: greg.doucette@noaa.gov

Tom Greig
Research interests:  
Position – Agency:  
Email: thomas.greig@noaa.gov

John Kucklick
Research interests: Environmental chemistry, bioaccumulation of organic pollutants
Position – Agency: Research Biologist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Email: john.kucklick@noaa.gov

Pam Morris
Research interests: Environmental microbiology
Position – Agency: Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
Email: morrisp@musc.edu

Craig Plante
Research interests: Microbial ecology, benthic biology
Position – Agency: Professor, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
Email: plantec@cofc.edu

Erik Sotka
Research interests: Ecology and evolution of marine biotic interactions, larval dispersal, molecular ecology, chemical ecology
Position – Agency: Assistant Professor, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
Email: sotkae@cofc.edu

Allan Strand
Research interests: Molecular ecology, evolution, and demography of plants
Position – Agency: Associate Professor, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston
Email: stranda@cofc.edu

Ana Zimmerman
Research interests: Molecular evolution of the vertebrate immune system
Position – Agency: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Email: zimmermana@cofc.edu