Julian Damashek, visiting assistant professor of biology, and Reilan Garczynski '26 both presented research conducted at Hamilton at the 2024 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) conference in Madison, Wisc.
Garczynski presented a poster on her research using bioinformatic techniques on Hamilton's High-Performance Computing server to study the global ecology of freshwater archaea, a subset of aquatic microbes that drive important nitrogen cycling processes, by mining terabytes of environmental DNA sequences.
Damashek co-chaired a conference session on microbial ecology, and gave a talk detailing results of a collaborative research project studying nitrogen-fixing microbes in aquatic ecosystems, a multi-year project including colleagues across the US and in France and Sweden. The ASLO conference is a premier international meeting on limnology and freshwater science.
