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Roman Barco

Assistant Professor (Research) of Earth Sciences
Roman Barco
Email barco@usc.edu Office UUC 217

Research & Practice Areas

Geomicrobiology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Physiology, Microbial Taxonomy.

Education

  • Ph.D. Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 2014
  • B.S. Microbiology, California State University – Los Angeles, 9/2004
    • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California (advisor: Jan Amend), 2017 – 2020
    • National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow , Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences/University of Southern California (advisors: David Emerson and Kenneth Nealson), 2015 – 2017
    • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California (advisor: Katrina Edwards), 2014 – 2015

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    The areas of research that I investigate are multidisciplinary and overlap multiple sub-disciplines of microbiology, including geomicrobiology, environmental microbiology, microbial physiology, microbial systematics, and evolutionary microbiology, with the main driver being the isolation of novel microorganisms as models of study. My research has focused on investigating microbial use of natural inorganic sources of energy (e.g., Fe, S, H2, Mn) and the biological interactions with minerals and rocks in order to get better perspective on the mechanisms that microbes use to cycle different elements on Earth.

    Research Keywords

    Geomicrobiology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Physiology, Microbial Taxonomy.

    Research Specialties

    Geomicrobiology, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Physiology, Microbial Taxonomy.

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