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.