Jeffrey J. Marlow

Dr. Jeffrey Marlow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University. He received his B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis (2007), M.Phil. from Imperial College London (2010), and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (2016). Dr. Marlow is interested in understanding how complex microbial communities shape and are shaped by their environments, particularly in the context of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen metabolism in coastal salt marshes, seafloor methane seeps, hydrothermal vents, polymetallic nodule fields, and recently emplaced lava flows. By focusing on culture-independent assessments of metabolic activity, the ecological roles of organisms working in concert can be clarified. By working across a range of systems, generalizable principles of life’s interaction with its environment can inform the search for life beyond Earth. Dr. Marlow has been named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, a Scialog Fellow, and an Explorers Club Rolex Explorer. He enjoys traveling, trail running, and fretting over the health of his house plants.

Areas of interest: microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, global change biology, metabolic activity, geobiology, astrobiology

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