Ruth Isenberg

Research Technician 2016-2018

Ruth came to us from Doc (Mark O.) Martin’s lab at the University of Puget Sound, where she isolated and characterized microbes from tardigrades. At UAA, she focused on characterizing pH tolerance in stickleback gut isolates, isolating and sequencing whole genomes and microbial gut communities, and collected samples from the field. Ruth earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023