CVetriani

First Name: 
Costantino
Last Name: 
Vetriani
Affiliation: 
Rutgers University
Research Interests: 
My research group integrates laboratory and in-situ studies to understand microbial processes in deep-sea environments (physiology, ecology, diversity and function of deep-sea microbial communities). We are investigating carbon and energy metabolism, cell-to-cell communication and detoxification mechanisms in laboratory cultures and in chemosynthetic biofilms collected at 9 and 13N on the East Pacific Rice. Furthermore, we are studying different mechanisms of hydrocarbon oxidation in vent bacteria. Besides work on the EPR, we have done work at vents located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Guaymas Basin, and at cold seeps located at the base of the Florida Escarpment and on the Blake Ridge.