Jeemin Rhim

Jeemin is a geomicrobiologist interested in studying how microbes (especially archaea) and their metabolic processes influence the geochemical environment around them and vice versa. In the Santoro Lab, she is combining cultivation field sampling and flow cytometry to develop a targeted cell sorting and genome amplification method for (un)cultured archaea with the goal of applying the approach to answer questions about the origin of the eukaryotic cell. As an ExFAB Fellow she aims to develop a high-throughput microvolume DNA extraction protocol to expedite enrichment and isolation efforts resulting in the discovery and characterization of novel microbes.