Allison Coe

Lab Manager / Research Associate
Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT 48-305
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 324-0014
Fax: (617) 258-7009
Email: a_coe at mit.edu

Education:

2000 B.S. Marine Biology, Roger Williams University

Publications:

Osburne, M., B. Holmbeck, A.Coe, S. Chisholm (2011)
The spontaneous mutation frequency in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is commensurate with that of other bacteria
Submitted

Malmstrom, R., A. Coe, G. Kettler, A. Martiny, J. Frias-Lopez, E. Zinser, S. Chisholm (2010)
Temporal dynamics of Prochlorococcus ecotypes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
ISME Journal 1-13: 1751-7362

Osburne, M., B. Holmbeck, J. Frias-Lopez, R. Steen, K. Huang, L. Kelly, A. Coe, K. Waraska, A. Gange, S. Chisholm (2010)
UV hyper-resistance in Prochlorococcus MED4 results from a single base pair deletion just upstream of an operon encoding nudix hydrolase and photolyase
Environmental Microbiology 2010 Mar 23

Moore, L.*, A.Coe*, E. Zinser, M. Saito, M. Sullivan, D. Lindell, K. Frois-Moniz, J. Waterbury, S.W. Chisholm (2007)
Culturing the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 5: 353-362
* = these authors contributed equally to this paper

Zinser, E.R., Z.I. Johnson, A.Coe, E. Karaca, D. Veneziano, S.W. Chisholm (2007)
Variations in Prochlorococcus ecotype distributions in the Atlantic Ocean: Influence of light and temperature
Limnology and Oceanography 52: 2205-2220.

Z.I. Johnson, E.R. Zinser, A. Coe, N.P. McNulty, E. Malcolm, S. Woodward, and S.W. Chisholm (2006)
Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients
Science 311(5768): 1737-1740.

Zinser, E.R., A. Coe, Z.I. Johnson, A.C. Martiny, N.J. Fuller, D.J. Scanlan, S.W. Chisholm (2006)
Prochlorococcus ecotype abundances in the North Atlantic Ocean revealed by an improved quantitative PCR method
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72(1): 723-732