Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Temple University
I arrived here in the Fall of 2007 as a Ph.D. student in the Sanders Laboratory, and completed my Ph.D. in August, 2014. My dissertation title was Feeding, Dark Survival, and Foreign Organelle Retention in an Antarctic Dinoflagellate. I hold a B.S. in Biology (Concentration in Microbiology) from Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, WA. It was there that I first became interested in protists, through courses in Phycology, Protozoology, and Mycology. I earned my M.S. in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, in College Park, MD, where I received training in microscopy and systematics. My research there focused on algal endosymbiosis in ciliates.
My current work centers on the significance of mixotrophy, foreign organelle retention and endosymbiosis for the evolution of plastids and their host lineages. I am currently studying an Antarctic dinoflagellate that sequesters foreign nuclei and plastids obtained from its prey, retaining the plastids for periods of months. More broadly, I am fascinated by diverse examples of symbiogenesis among eukaryotes - the origins of new taxa as a consequence of symbiosis.
Contact me: (215) 204-6202 cgsellers [at] temple [dot] edu
I arrived here in the Fall of 2007 as a Ph.D. student in the Sanders Laboratory, and completed my Ph.D. in August, 2014. My dissertation title was Feeding, Dark Survival, and Foreign Organelle Retention in an Antarctic Dinoflagellate. I hold a B.S. in Biology (Concentration in Microbiology) from Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, WA. It was there that I first became interested in protists, through courses in Phycology, Protozoology, and Mycology. I earned my M.S. in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, in College Park, MD, where I received training in microscopy and systematics. My research there focused on algal endosymbiosis in ciliates.
My current work centers on the significance of mixotrophy, foreign organelle retention and endosymbiosis for the evolution of plastids and their host lineages. I am currently studying an Antarctic dinoflagellate that sequesters foreign nuclei and plastids obtained from its prey, retaining the plastids for periods of months. More broadly, I am fascinated by diverse examples of symbiogenesis among eukaryotes - the origins of new taxa as a consequence of symbiosis.
Contact me: (215) 204-6202 cgsellers [at] temple [dot] edu
