Microbes, Microscopy, & Metagenomics
Hello! I’m Mo Kaze. I completed my terminal masters work for NASA investigating archaea in geothermal acid pools in 2017 using metagenomics and started a PhD in Quantitative Systems Biology at University of California (graduating August, 2020). I’m currently a DOE Fellow working at the JGI on methanogenesis. I love all things bacterial, archaeal, and viral. My research involves microbial ecology, metagenomics, biogeochemistry, climate change, and bioinformatics. I find microorganismal networks - the ones that allow them figure out how to eat, compete, and rule everything - beyond wonderful! I am fascinated by how genes get around in the environment. I am interested in everything in the natural world - except things with faces … ok, well maybe some eukaryotes make the cut.
My Blog
I write about all kinds of things but focus on the experience of being a non-traditional PhD student, my favorite topics in microbiology and virology, and the process of science and becoming a scientist.
My Publications
Check out my publications and the stories about how these research projects came to be. My work covers a various topics under microbiology with the unifying theme of microbial genetic movement across environmental gradients.
My JGI/DOE Project
I’m currently a DOE fellow working at the Joint Genome Institute at Berkeley Lab. Read more about my work looking into man-made systems that might be contributing to greenhouse gases and the microbial communities that are running the show.
Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.
— Lynn Margulis