Allison Coe

Lab Manager / Research Associate
Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT 48-336
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 253-3897
Fax: (617) 258-7009
Email: a_coe at mit.edu

Education:

2000 B.S. Marine Biology, Roger Williams University

Research Interests:
I am interested in marine viral effects on microalgal growth and mortality, the molecular evolution of marine viruses, the effects of marine virus infection rates in extreme environments, and diversity and population dynamics of marine algal viruses in extreme environments

Publications:

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