Faculty - Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm
Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm
Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies
Professor of Biology
MIT
Room 48-419
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA, 02139
Telephone: 617.253.1771 e-mail: chisholm@mit.edu Website: http://chisholmlab.mit.edu/
Education
- B.A. 1969, Skidmore College
- 1970, Cornell University
- Ph.D. 1974, S.U.N.Y. Albany
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.


Cambridge, MA 02139-4307