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Welcome, Karen Lloyd!<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Department of Earth Sciences<\/strong>\n \n August 8, 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Karen G. Lloyd<\/a> is a microbial biogeochemist, focused on discovering and describing life inside Earth\u2019s crust. She joined the Earth Sciences faculty in July 2024 as the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences. She has a joint appointment as Professor of Marine and Environmental Biology.<\/p>\n

Lloyd comes to us after twelve years at the University of Tennessee, where she was Professor of Microbiology, preceded by a post-doc with Bo Barker J\u00f8rgensen at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University in Denmark and a PhD with Andreas Teske in Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Lloyd and her lab determine the carbon and energy sources for the vast uncharacterized majority of subsurface microorganisms in hydrothermal vents\/springs,\u00a0cold methane seeps, deep oceanic sediments, coastal estuaries and bays, and subduction zones.\u00a0 Her research combines bioinformatics (e.g., phylogenetics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, and metabolomics) with geochemical measurements to recreate the lives of deep subsurface microbial communities and determine the effects they are having on Earth\u2019s biogeochemical cycles.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/karen_lloyd_the_mysterious_microbes_living_deep_inside_the_earth_and_how_they_could_help_humanity?subtitle=en<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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