posted on February 20, 2014
Assistant Professor Jake Bailey (Earth Sciences) has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. This is a very competitive award that honors early-career U.S. and Canadian researchers. Professor Bailey was given the award in recognition of his work in the field geobiology. He uses MSI resources for this research, which investigates how the activities of microorganisms, especially sulfur bacteria, on the precipitation and dissolution of authigenic minerals. (Authigenic minerals are those that were created where they are found, as opposed to those that were transported to their location by wind or water.) The work involves analysis of single-gene and whole-genome sequence data. More information about the Sloan Fellowship can be found in the College of Science and Engineering’s news release.