Joy Custer
Master's Student
Primary Faculty Advisor: Paul Carini
Keating BioResearch Building/Bio5
1657 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721
Graduated Spring 2020
My research focuses on cultivating and identifying Bradyrhizobium sp. from soil in order to investigate the genomic and physiological differences within the genus across a climatic gradient. Since Bradyrhizobium is a globally abundant and ubiquitous soil microbe, this information about the microdiversity of the genus can provide key insights into microbial distribution patterns and their role in soil fertility and biogeochemistry.