For her Ph.D. research in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Erin Bertrand (right) studied how marine phytoplankton get, use, and compete for nutrients in the ocean. She worked her advisor, WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito (left), whose lab group has been working to advance techniques using proteomics to study critical proteins in the marine environment. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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