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Brittany N. Zepernick

Brittany N. Zepernick

Education

Ph.D., University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2023

Research Interests

For her Ph.D., Britt investigated he factors that drive algal bloom success and succession in Lake Erie – with a focus on toxic cyanobacteria and non-toxic freshwater diatoms. Now, she has ridden the freshwater – marine continuum to Chapel Hill where she will research whether proton-pumping rhodopsin’s serve as an alternative energy source in polar diatoms derived from the Southern Ocean.