Andrew E. Allen
Dr. Andrew E. Allen is Joint Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute. Following his PhD from the University of Georgia and postdoctoral work at Princeton and École Normale Supérieure, he joined JCVI in 2007 and Scripps in 2013. His laboratory studies marine micro-eukaryotic phytoplankton, which perform half of global photosynthesis and form the foundation of ocean ecosystems. The team combines physiological, bioinformatic, and genomic approaches to understand how these organisms adapt to stress, regulate nutrient cycles, and interact with bacteria and viruses. This research aims to illuminate the regulatory networks controlling nutrient flux in marine ecosystems.