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General Information

Full Name Arianna Krinos Quinn, Ph.D.

Education

  • 2024
    PhD
    MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Biological Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
    • Thesis Supervisors
      • Dr. Harriet Alexander, WHOI
      • Dr. Michael (Mick) J. Follows, MIT
    • Thesis Title
      • Decoding divergence in marine protistan communities - from strain diversity to basin biogeography
  • 2019
    Bachelor of Science
    Virginia Tech
    • Biological Sciences
    • Computer Science
    • Computational Modeling and Data Analytics
    • Minor - Mathematics

Experience

  • 2021 - 2024
    Visiting Researcher
    Joint Genome Institute
    • New Lineages of Life Group, JGI

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
  • 2018
    • Astronaut Scholarship
    • Barry Goldwater Scholarship

Academic Interests

  • Combining modeling and -omics approaches
    • Leveraging observations to improve ecosystem model projects of phytoplankton distributions
    • Using physiological modeling to assimilate transcriptomic and proteomic data
  • Improving taxonomic annotation of marine microbial eukaryotes
    • EUKulele software tool
    • Clustering approaches for taxonomic annotation

Other Interests

  • Outreach: Classroom visits, education festivals, general marine science education
  • Hobbies: Violin, scrapbooking, kayaking