Meet the Barkay lab members!

	Heather Wiatrowski -Postdoctoral Fellow wiatrowski@aesop.rutgers.edu Metal homeostasis in anaerobic microorganisms
	Yanping Wang - Postdoctoral Fellow yanpingwang_8@hotmail.com Interactions between mercury and anaerobic microorganisms in subsurface sediments
	Kritee - Graduate Student kritee@eden.rutgers.edu Mercury stable isotope fractionation by microbial and abiotic transformations.
	Aspa Chatziefthimiou- Graduate Student aspassaki@yahoo.gr Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Metal Homoestasis
	Sharron Crane- Graduate Student hickssharron@aol.com Mercury mycorrhizae fungi-plant interaction
	Riqing Yu - Graduate Student rqyu@eden.rutgers.edu Molecular characterization of methylmercury production in Adirondack wetland soils
	Rachel Ward - Graduate Student Odessa758@aol.com Mercury mycorrhizae fungi-plant interaction
	Zachary Freedman - Graduate Student zfreedm@eden.rutgers.edu
	Pat Lu Irving - Laboratory Assistant pli@aesop.rutgers.edu The interactions of microbes with mercury in geothermal environments
	Matt Rodman - Graduate Student mr715@nyu.edu
*And all of us remember you......*	Melitza Crespo-Medina - Graduate Student melitza@eden.rutgers.edu Interactions of microbes from geothermal environments with metals (in collaboration with the Vetriani Lab).
	Jonna Coombs - Ex-Postdoctoral Fellow coombs@adelphi.edu The role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of metal hemeostasis in subsurface microorganisms. She is currently a faculty member at Adelphi university.
	Jeffra Schaefer - Ex-Graduate Student jschaefe@Princeton.edu Jeffra worked on the role of mer genes and their expression in the geochemical cycling of mercury. Currently she is a post-doctoral fellow in Geosciences department in Princeton University.
	Chris DiPasquale - Ex-Undergraduate Student cdipas68@eden.rutgers.edu Molecular characterization of methylmercury production in Adirondack wetland soils
	Matthew Meredith- Ex-Summer Student mmmeredi@colby.edu Matt was with us for 3 months and worked on the stable isotope fractionation of mercury during its biological transformations.
	Rita Theofanopoulos- Ex-Undergraduate Student rita13cool@hotmail.com Rita worked on mercury resistance among anaerobic bacteria when she was with us and has now moved to Greece to join a M.D. program.