User:Alexander F. Koeppel

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Alexander F. Koeppel (an artistic interpretation)

• Alexander F. Koeppel
• University of Virginia
• Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Wu lab at the University of Virginia. I learned about OpenWetWare through the iSEEM project.

Education

• 2009, PhD, Wesleyan University
• 2000, BA, Oberlin College

Research interests

1. Microbial Ecology
2. Species Concepts
3. Bioinformatics

Publications

1. Cohan, F. M. and A. F. Koeppel. 2008. The origins of ecological diversity in prokaryotes. Current Biology, 18: R1024-R1034.
2. Koeppel, A. F., E. B. Perry, J. Sikorski, D. Krizanc, W. A. Warner, D. M .Ward, A. P. Rooney, E. Brambilla, N. Connor, E. Nevo, R. M. Ratcliff, and F. M. Cohan. 2008. Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity: A paradigm shift to incorporate ecology into bacterial systematics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 2504-2509.