Monica Torres-Beltran
PhD student
e-mail: tbmonica@ubc.ca
office phone: 604-827-4216
Research Interests:
- Microbial ecology: bacterial communities linkage and energy flows
- Stable isotopes ecology: linking phylogeny to function
- Bioactive compounds production linked to environmental function
For my PhD I’ll be working with Saanich Inlet bacterial communities dynamics and energy transfer trying to identify the interspecific relation between seasonally bacterial networks using the Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) as the main experimental approach.
Education:
2007-2009 - M.Sc Coastal Oceanography, University of Baja California, Mexico.
2002-2007 - B.Sc Oceanography, University of Baja California, Mexico.
Publications:
- Evaluation of the Gulf of California as a potential source of bioactive marine actinobacteria. M. Torres-Beltrán, F. Cardoso-Martínez, N. Millán-Aguiñaga, A. Becerril-Espinosa, I.E. Soria-Mercado.(2012). International Journal of Marine Sciences. In press.
- Microbial community structure across fluid gradients in the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal system (2012). Anderson, Rika, Torres Beltran, Monica, Hallam, Steven and Baross, J. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. In press.