Email: s.epstein@neu.edu

Phone: 617.373.4048
Fax: 617.373.3724

Location: 420 Mugar Life Sciences
Mail: NU/Biology
         134 Mugar Life Sciences
         360 Huntington Avenue
         Boston, MA 02115 USA

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Research Description

I am interested in the diversity of microbial life in the ocean, and I came to see microbial communities as exquisitely "designed" living organisms. Specific projects in my lab include the search for novel forms of microbial life, growing and characterization of previously unknown microbes, research on the nature of their interactions in the environment, and ecology, geography, and evolution of selected groups of marine protists.

Stoeck T., Hayward B., Taylor G.T., Varela R., Epstein S.S. (2006) A multiple PCR-primer approach to access the microeukaryotic diversity in environmental samples. Protist in press.

Hong S.-H., Bunge J., Jeon, S.-O., and S.S. Epstein. (2006) Predicting microbial species richness. PNAS 103: 117-122

Stoeck, T., W. Fowle, and S.S.Epstein (2003) Methodology of protistan discovery: from rRNA detection to quality SEM images. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 6856–6863.

Hayward, B. H., R. Droste and S.S.Epstein (2003). Interstitial Ciliates: Benthic Microaerophiles or Planktonic Anaerobes? J. Euk. Microbiol. 50: 356-359.

Stoeck, T., G. Taylor, and S.S.Epstein (2003). Novel eukaryotes from a permanently anoxic Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 5656-5663.

Stoeck, T., and S.S.Epstein (2003) Novel eukaryotic lineages inferred from SSU rRNA analyses in oxygen-depleted marine environments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 2657-2663.

T. Kaeberlein, K. Lewis, S. Epstein (2002). Isolating "uncultivable" microorganisms in pure culture in a simulated natural environment. Science 296: 1127-1129. Abstract | Full Text.

Epstein, S.S. (2001). Microbial interactions. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, MacMillan.

Bazylinski, D.A., Schlezinger, D.A., Howes, B.L., Frankel, R.B., and Epstein, S.S. (2000). Occurrence and distribution of diverse populations of magnetic protists in a chemically stratified coastal salt pond. Chem. Geol. 169: 319-328.

Epstein, S.S. et al. (1998). Epibiotic bacteria on several ciliates from marine sediments. J. Euk. Microbiol. 45: 64-70.

Epstein, S.S. (1997a). Microbial food webs in marine sediments. I. Trophic interactions and grazing rates in two tidal flat communities. Microb. Ecol. 34: 188-198.

Epstein, S.S. (1997b). Microbial food webs in marine sediments. II. Seasonal changes in trophic interactions in a sandy tidal flat community. Microb. Ecol. 34: 199-209.

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