Cedar McKay
I am a technician here in the lab, and a bit of a jack of all trades. My responsibilities are broken into three main areas.
Laboratory Research:
My project is to get the tRFLP technique working on oceanic cyanobacteria, using the ITS as a target. The goal is to be able to quickly and cheaply determine the presences/absence of particular cyanobacterial clades. This work ties in with the Distribution of Ecotypes work. I also occasionaly get to go on a cruise!
Bioinformatics:
Much of our work depends on analyzing sequence data using various computational techniques. I work with Gabrielle to link various pieces of software and computations together in a way that yeilds results that are relevent and accurate. I also write software as needed for our analysis using the python programming language.
Systems Administration:
I keep MMBL's computers running smoothly, our systems backed up, and hackers out of our hair. I am also responsible for designing the website which you are viewing right now!