Ian Hewson (he/him/his)
Principal Investigator
Professor
Department of Microbiology
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-0151
Fax: 607-255-3904
hewson ‘at’ cornell ‘dot’ edu

 

Chris Derito
Laboratory Manager

Since joining the lab in late 2017, Chris has facilitated research expeditions to Santa Cruz, Bodega Bay Marine Lab, and worked on bacterial amplicon sequence libraries in Ithaca. He also directed work on hypoxia, and became an expert in computed tomography imaging interpretation. Chris has a wealth of experience in microbial biogeochemistry in environments as diverse as soils and groundwater to the human microbiome. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Chris has led efforts to examine SARS-CoV-2 presence in Ithaca’s wastewater.

Jordan Rede
Graduate Student, Microbiology

Jordan joined the lab in Fall 2018 and has worked on sea star microbiome interpretation. His background is in antibiotic resistance and microme analyses. He has recently performed a survey of seagrass-associated bacteria, and hopes to study this system in the future.

Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas

Graduate Student, Microbiology

Brayan joined the lab in Fall 2022. His work focuses on the microbiology of Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis and marine diseases.

 

 

Ashley Altera

Undergraduate Researcher

Ashley joined the lab in Fall 2021 and works on sea cucumber flavivirus detection via RNA extraction and RT-LAMP. 

 

Ricardo Bourdon

Undergraduate Researcher

Ricardo joined the lab in Fall 2021 and works on seagrass-microbiome interactions. He is currently working to sequence seagrass dicistroviruses.

 

Dan Kasin                                                                                 

Undergraduate Researcher

Dan joined the lab in Fall 2022 and works on echinoderm associated flaviviruses. 

 

Katie Philipp

Undergraduate Researcher

Katie joined the lab in Spring 2022 and works on the BrDU bacterial production assay to understand how organic matter amendment changes the rate at which bacteria divide.

 

Team Aquatic Virus Alumni

Citlalli Aquino, Undergraduate Researcher 2018 – San Francisco State University
Will Aragundi, Undergraduate Researcher 2010-2011 – New York Aquarium
Kate Baggaley, Undergraduate Researcher, 2010 – Freelance Journalism
Jorge Barbosa, Technician 2010-2011 – United Nations
Ryan Besemer, High School Student 2016-2017 and Undergraduate Researcher 2019 – UNC Wilmington
Victor Biguma, Undergraduate Researcher, 2015 – University of Cincinatti
Kalia Bistolas, PhD Student, 2014 – 2019 – Oregon State University
Julie Brown, PhD Student 2009-2015 – Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Jason Button, Technician 2014-2015 – Illumina
Ashley Campbell, Rotation Graduate Student, 2009 – Adaptive Biotech

Jameson Crandell, Undergraduate Researcher 2020 – 2022 – Yale University
Isabelle Davenport, Undergraduate Researcher 2019 – UC San Diego
Ryan Donelan, Undergraduate Researcher 2011-2012 – Old Bridge Dental
Devin Doud, Rotation Graduate Student, 2010 – Senda Biosciences
James Eaglesham, Undergraduate Researcher 2011-2015 – New England Biolabs
Erin Eggleston, PhD Student 2010-2015 – Middelbury College
Phil Fargo, Undergraduate Researcher, 2014-2015 – Syracuse City School District
Nicole Felice, Undergraduate Researcher 2009-2010 – Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLC
Jacob Flanzenbaum, Undergraduate Researcher, 2016-2017 – SUNY Stony Brook
Parker Foster, Honors Student, 2014-2015 – John Hopkins University
Shari Gitlin, Undergraduate Researcher, 2009 – SUNY Downstate Medical College
Brent Gudenkauf, Honors Student, 2013-2014 – John Hopkins Medicine
Grace Ha, Undergraduate Researcher, 2010 – UC Davis
Adam Hall, Undergraduate Researcher, 2009 – Told Partners, Inc.
Ted Hermann, Research Technician, 2010 – UC Santa Cruz

Elliot Jackson, Graduate Student 2014 – 2021 – Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Mitch Johnson, Undergraduate Researcher and Research Technician, 2014 – 2017 – San Diego State University
Brenna LaBarre, Undergraduate Researcher, 2009-2010 – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chaunte Lewis, Undergraduate Researcher, 2015-2016 – Michigan State University
WenFang Li, Undergraduate Researcher, 2011 – 2012
John McAdams, Undergraduate Researcher, 2012
John Means, Undergraduate Researcher, 2009 – Meta Housing Corporation

Carolina Machado, 2022 – Cornell Univeristy
Josh Moyer, Research Technician, 2011 – U Mass Amherst
Mizue Naito, Rotation Graduate Student, 2011 – Dose Biosystems Toronto
Will Najar, Web Programmer, 2012-2013 – Microsoft
Dani Neuharth-Keusch, Undergraduate Researcher, 2011 – Change Corps
Johanna Pedersen, Undergraduate Researcher, 2010 -NOAA
Sue Pierre, Honorary Grad Student, 2014-2018 – UC Berkeley
Eva Quijano Carde, DVM Student, 2014-2017 – UC Davis

Brandon Reyes-Chavez, Rotation Graduate Student, 2022
Phil Thompson, Technician 2011-2012 – Hong Kong University
Alex Vompe, Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 – Oregon State University

Evangeline Wang, 2022 – Cornell University
Mary Beth Wilhelm, Undergraduate Researcher, 2010-2011 – NASA Ames
Alex Wolverton, Research Technician, 2010 – Cayuga Pet Hospital