Current Lab members
Jimmy Saw (Principle Investigator)
Hi, everyone! I am fascinated by microbes and their diversity! I attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from undergraduate through Ph.D. years and I worked with Stuart Donachie for my Ph.D. degree on cultivation and complete genome sequencing of Gloeobacter kilaueensis JS1. I then did postdoctoral research on archaeal diversity and evolution with Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University in Sweden from 2012 to 2016 where we discovered the Lokiarchaeota and Asgardarchaeota, then did another postdoctoral research on SAR11 and SAR202 pangenomics with Steve Giovannoni at Oregon State University from 2016 to 2018. You can also check out my Google Scholar, ORCID, and Publons pages.
Shekhar Nagar (Postdoctoral researcher)
Working on microbial diversity in geothermal habitats.
Manolya Balbay (PhD student)
Working on archaeal diversity and genomics.
Pia Sen (PhD student)
Working on microbial diversity and the roles of viruses in extreme environments.
Lausanne Oliver (PhD student - Fall 2024)
Working on cultivation of microbes from various environmental samples.
May May Hubbard (undergraduate student)
Working on cultivating novel microbes from extreme habitats.
Sam Lee (Post-bac student)
Working on metagenomics and targeted cultivation of novel Chloroflexi lineages from Hawaiian steam vents.
Jack (dogtoral researcher)
Researching how to specialize and finetune olfactory receptors to maximize nutrient acquisition.
Lab alumni
- Chengxuan Zhang (MS student)
- Mona Hajjar (undergrad)
- Christina Pavloudi (postdoc)
- Max Shlafstein (undergrad)
- Chloe Shaw (BS/MS student)
- Brooke Cody (undergrad)
- Alison Pagalilauan (BS/MS student)
- Kaitlynn Slattery (undergrad)
- Guin Lissner (undergrad)
- Natalia Monsalve (undergrad)
- Keerthi Selvam (high school student)
- Saleh Naeem (undergrad)
- Sarah Schmoyer (undergrad)
- Talia Shapiro (undergrad)
- Haley Quinn (undergrad)
- Henry Becker (undergrad)
- Maria Izzi (high school student)