Erika Shook
Education
M.S., Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, (current)
B.S., Animal Science (Minors: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Wildlife Conservation) University of Connecticut, 2020
Research Interests
Marine microbial ecology, ecological genomics, and ocean policy.
Research and Activities
I will be conducting a combination of lab work and field work in Oahu, Hawaii to investigate the ecology of the bacteria Vibrio fischeri in the natural environment and within its host organism, the Hawaiian bobtail squid. From these communities, I will assess the proportion of V. fischeri strains that possess a killing mechanism used in bacterial competition in host colonization, called the Type-6 Secretion System.