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The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International have named five scientists as 2024 Simons Early Career Investigators in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution. The three-year awards are intended to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in this area.
These grants will be funded by the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International and administered by the Simons Foundation.
Natalie Cohen of the University of Georgia
Tracking shifts in phytoplankton iron physiology along a continental shelf gradient
Xuefeng Peng of the University of South Carolina
Fungal contribution to benthic nitrogen and carbon cycling in a productive ocean basin
Aaron Puri of the University of Utah
The molecular basis of cross-feeding specificity in a bacterial community
Jing Yan of Yale University
Deciphering spatiotemporal dynamics of protist-biofilm systems
Emily Zakem of the Carnegie Institution for Science
Ecological control of nitrogen loss in dynamic marine anoxic zones
