Jeemin Rhim

I am a geomicrobiologist interested in studying how microbes (especially archaea) and their metabolic processes influence the geochemical environment around them, and vice versa. My previous work has focused on investigating 1) the carbon, hydrogen, and clumped isotope signatures of microbial methane to aid the source identification of methane and 2) the hydrogen isotope signatures of archaeal lipids to develop a new (paleo)environmental proxy. In the Santoro Lab, I am combining cultivation, field sampling, and flow cytometry to develop a targeted cell sorting and genome amplification method for (un)cultured archaea, with the goal of applying the approach to answer questions about the origin of the eukaryotic cell.