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Deep dive into ocean ecology

Image of the ocean from above, credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Image of the ocean from above, credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

±ΖΑ¨΄«Γ½ alumna Lorna Mitchison-Field ’18 was first author on a study of ocean fungi, shedding light on crucial contributors to the marine ecosystem.

By Keely Sexton

Lorna Mitchison-Field ’18 took a deep dive into studying the secret lives of ocean fungi and discovered not only that there was a lot more diversity than expected, but there were also surprising deviations in the cell division cycles among them. The findings were published in .

The study, the first of its kind, described 35 different species of marine fungi, many of which had never been studied before.

β€œThere's a lot of diversity in marine fungi β€” morphological and species diversity, possibly ecological functional diversity β€” that we don’t know a lot about yet. And it’s really worth digging into,” said Mitchison-Field.

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