Biology and Marine Biology
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Julie Anna Koester
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Dept. of Biology and Marine Biology
CURRENT POSITION
Lecturer
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Post-doctoral researcher, 2012-2014
Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
Focus: evolution of phytoplankton with respect to temperature
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Biological Oceanography, 2012
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Title: Genomic evidence of adaptation and speciation in diatoms
Advanced Phycology Course (Taxonomy of Phytoplankton), April 2008
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
M.Sc. Botany and Plant Pathology, 2005
University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Title: Sexual Reproduction in the marine centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii
East/West Marine Biology Program, 1991 – 1992
Friday Harbor Labs, San Juan Island, WA; Discovery Bay Marine Labs, Jamaica; Northeastern
University, Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA
Honors B.Sc. Marine Biology, 1991
University of British Columbia
Title: Resource allocation in the rockweed Fucus gardnerii
PEER REVIEWD PUBLICATIONS
Koester, J.A, Swanson, W.J., and Armbrust, E.V. 2013. Positive selection in a diatom acts on
conserved and lineage specific genes affecting transcriptional regulation and protein
interactions. Mol. Biol. Evol.30:422-434. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mss242
Sharpe, S.C., Koester, J.A., Loebl, M., Cockshutt, A.M., Irwin, A.J.,^ and Finkel, Z.V. 2012.
Metabolic size scaling within and across cryptic species of Ditylum brightwellii
(Bacillariophyceae). PLoS ONE 7(12): e52916. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052916
Koester, J.A., Swalwell, J.E., von Dassow, P., and Armbrust, V.E. 2010. Genome size
differentiates co-occurring populations of the planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii
(Bacillariophyta). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10:1 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-1
Koester, J.A., Brawley, S.H.B., Karp-Boss, L. and Mann, D. 2007. Sexual reproduction in the
marine centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyta). European Journal of
Phycology. 42(4):351-366
