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Center for Environmental Bio-Inorganic
Chemistry (CEBIC)- Outreach
P.I. Francois M.M. Morel, Princeton University
Subproject to Alison Butler, University of California, Santa Barbara
(CHE-0221978)
Siderophores are low MW compounds produced
by microorganisms to acquire iron. As a result of
the paucity of iron in surface ocean waters, we
are interested in the molecular mechanisms that
bacteria use to sequester iron, including, in
particular, the structures of the siderophores.
Senior graduate student Jessica Martin at UC
Santa Barbara, has discovered a new family of
amphiphilic siderophores, named the
ochrobactins, isolated from the alphaproteobacterium, Ochrobactrum sp18. She has
included Rachel Li, then a Senior at Santa
Barbara High School in her project, teaching her
how to maintain bacterial cultures and isolate
siderophores.
Written summary of project
Picture or graphic
Rachel Li, Senior Santa Barbara High School,
shown plating marine bacteria in the lab. She is
now a freshman at UC Berkeley.
We thank Jessica D. Martin, a senior Graduate Student in the Butler lab for working with Rachel Li