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Shiladitya DasSarma |
Halo-Ed Team
Co-Leader
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Shiladitya
DasSarma is a Professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Institute
of Marine and Environmental Technology. His PhD is from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and he did postdoctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital
of Harvard Medical School and the Pasteur Institute. He started his
independent career as faculty member in the Department of Microbiology at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst and later moved to the University of
Maryland. He has served as a PI on research grants from federal agencies and
foundations continuously for more than 30 years, publishing 160+ scientific
papers, and mentoring more than 180 research students. |
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An integrated view of the biology
of Halobacterium NRC-1 (from genome sequencing paper in Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA). |
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The
Purple Earth hypothesis was proposed from the observed spectral
complementarity of retinal and chlorophyll (see IJA paper and PBS
and CNN videos). |
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Featured podcast Check out the transcript of the
interview or listen to the podcast below for more on the Purple Earth and
other discoveries made in the DasSarma lab. See video clips from the
interview on
YouTube.
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Featured awards DasSarma won the MacVicar Award from MIT and was named Sustainability Champion at the University of Maryland Baltimore for his
leadership and educational work on climate change. |
