Faculty - Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm

Education

• B.A. 1969, Skidmore College
• 1970, Cornell University
• Ph.D. 1974, S.U.N.Y. Albany

Curriculum vitae

Research Interests

• General areas
  • Biological oceanography
  • Microbial ecology
  • Ecological Genomics
• Current interests
  • Ecology, evolution, and comparative genomics of marine cyanobacteria and viruses that infect them
  • Iron limitation of phytoplankton growth
  • The ecological and policy dimensions of large-scale ocean fertilization

Teaching Interests

• Ecology
• Microbial Oceanography

Selected Publications

• 2007: Coleman, M.L. and S.W. Chisholm Code and Context: Prochlorococcus as a model for cross-scale biology. Trends in Microbiology 15:398-407.
• 2006: Coleman, M.L., M.B. Sullivan, C. Steglich, E.F. DeLong and S.W. Chisholm. Genomic Islands and the ecology and evolution of Prochlorococcus. Science 311:1768-1770.
• 2006: Johnson Z, Zinser ER, Coe A, McNulty NP, Woodward EMS, Chisholm SW. Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients. Science 311:1737-1740.
• 2005: Lindell, D, J. D. Jaffe, Z. I. Johnson, G. M. Church, S. W. Chisholm. Photosynthesis genes in marine viruses yield proteins during host infection. Nature 438:86-89.
• 2003: Rocap G, Larimer F, Lamerdin J, Malfatti S, Chain P, Ahlgren N, Arellano A, Coleman M, Hauser L, Hess W, Johnson Z, Land M, Lindell D, Post A, Regala W, Shah M, Shaw S, Steglich C, Sullivan M, Ting C, Tolonen A, Webb E, Zinser E, Chisholm S. Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiation. Nature 424: 1042-1047.

To view entire publications list, please visit the Chisholm Lab website.