Colleen Cavanaugh is the Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and the Co-Director of the Microbial Sciences Initiative at Harvard University. Cavanaugh’s lab studies the symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and marine invertebrates, including those found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, methane seeps and in coastal sediments. Cavanaugh has traveled the world on research cruises and is one of the few scientists in the world who has visited, in the submersible Alvin, the fantastic environment found around sea vents at depths of greater than 2.5 km (1.5 miles). Cavanaugh is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.
Learn more about Dr. Cavanaugh’s research http://cavanaughlab.oeb.harvard.edu/home
