Matthew B. Sullivan, Ph.D. – Principal Investigator

Department of Microbiology & Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering

Mailing address:
496 W 12th Ave
Riffe Building 947
Columbus, OH 43210

Office: R914
Lab: R939/947

Lab Telephone: (614) 247-1623
Email: sullivan.948@osu.edu

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Appointments

• Associate Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2016-present
• Assistant Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2015-2016
• Associate Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2014-2015
• Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2008-2014
• Joint appointments: Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology and the BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, 2009-present
• Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-2007
• Predoctoral trainee, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998-2003
• Predoctoral trainee, Portaferry Marine Laboratory, Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K., 1997-1998
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 1996
• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellow, Horn Point Environmental Laboratories, University of Maryland, 1994

Education

• Postdoctoral fellow, MIT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004-7
• Ph.D., Biology, MIT/WHOI: Joint Program in Biological Oceanography, 2004
• M.Phil., Biology, Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K., 1998
• B.S., Marine Science, Long Island University, Southampton College, NY, 1997

Honors and Awards

• Fulbright Scholar, 1998
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator Award, 2012
• Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, 2013
• Beckman Scholar’s Undergraduate Researcher Mentor, 2014
• Editorial Board, Environmental Microbiology (John Wiley & Sons publishing group, IF=6.24), 2014
• Senior Editorial Board, The ISME Journal (Nature publishing group, IF=9.27), 2015

Research

Dr. Sullivan’s research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of phage and host genome evolution, as well as explore the roles of ocean viruses in global biogeochemical cycling.

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