California State University Long BeachÂ
Undergraduate Student, Department of Biological Sciences
Meghan is characterizing geological samples from hypersaline brines through the isolation and extraction of DNA, RNA, and proteins. These brine samples are from mineral-brine field sites that range in age from modern/surface settings to geologically old samples dated to be ~253 Myr. and are of great interest as homologs to the Martian hypersaline evaporite mineral environment. Meghan is currently a senior honors Microbiology undergraduate at CSU- Long Beach and conducts halophilic virus characterization research with Dr. Jesse Dillon.