Undergraduate:
Dean’s List, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Northeastern University Achievement Award, Member of the Biology Club, ESOL tutor
Graduate school:
Presidential Scholar, Leadership Fellow, Grand Challenges Facilitator, REU student mentor and trip leader, Microbiome outreach event at Laurel Ridge Elementary School, Science fair judge at Tooman Elementary School, Honorable mention for NSFGRFP
Postdoctoral:
Served on the review committee for the College of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Fellowships, reviewer for Coral Reefs, Environmental Microbiology Reports, and Environmental Science and Pollution, Microbial Ecology, research paper selected for This Week in Microbiology popular science podcast filmed live, available here TWIM episode 208, publication highlighted in Science Daily, Phys.org, and Georgia Tech’s Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection
Funding: 2020 - Tomales Bay Watershed Council and the National Park Service, Project title: Using eDNA and aerial (drone) imagery to characterize coastal fish communities in response to health and extent of eelgrass, Zostera marina, Award dates: 6/1/2020 to 12/1/2021, Amount awarded: $1979
National Park Service Point Reyes National Seashore, Project title: Using environmental DNA and aerial imagery to characterize coastal fish biodiversity in eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds in Drakes Estero, Award dates: 6/1/2020 to 12/1/2021, $36,189.80
University of California, Davis
Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Evolution and Ecology
2019 - current
Georgia Institute of Technology
Teasley Endowed Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
2019
Georgia Institute of Technology
PI: Mark Hay
Doctorate in Philosophy
Graduate Research Assistant
2012-2018
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Marine Natural Products Discovery
PIs: William Fenical Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine (CMBB); Paul Jensen Professor at CMBB
Staff Research Associate Level II
2008-2012
Data analysis and programming:
R programming, QIIME for 16S gene analysis, FLASH, Trim Galore!, Python, git for version control, R markdown and github for open reproducible science
Field skills:
Coast Guard Certified Safe Boater, Scuba Certified, field experimentation on coral reefs and seagrass ecosystems, and benthic surveys
Laboratory skills:
Adept in sterile technique, microbial isolation, tissue culture, antibacterial, antifungal, & cytotoxicity bioassays, DNA extraction, PCR, operation of Illumina MiSeq Sequencer, EPMotion robotics
Choi EJ, Beatty DS, Paul LA, and Jensen, PR. (2013). "Mooreia alkaloidigena gen. nov., sp. nov. and Catalinimonas alkaloidigena gen. nov., sp. nov., alkaloid-producing marine bacteria in the proposed families Mooreiaceae fam. nov. and Catalimonadaceae fam. nov. in the phylum Bacteroidetes." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63, 1219-1228.
Jang KH, Nam SJ, Locke JB, Kauffman CA, Beatty DS, Paul LA, and Fenical W. (2013). "Anthracimycin, a potent anthrax antibiotic from a marine‐derived actinomycete." Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52, 7822-7824.
Nam SJ, Choi EJ, Paul LA, Beatty DS,Kauffman CA, Jensen PR, and Fenical W. (2015). "Previously uncultured marine bacteria linked to novel alkaloid production." Chemistry and Biology. 22, 1270-1279.
Hay ME, Beatty DS, Stewart FJ (2017). "Chemical ecology: the language of microbiomes." National Academies of Sciences Proceedings Series.
Beatty DS, Clements CS, Stewart FJ, and Hay ME (2018). "Intergenerational effects of macroalgal reef dominance on coral: major declines in survival of coral larvae but subtle changes in microbiomes." Marine Ecology Progress Series 589, 97-114.
Beatty DS, Valayil JM, Clements CS, Ritchie KB, Stewart FJ, and Hay ME (2019). "Variable effects of local management on coral defenses against a thermally regulated bleaching pathogen." Science Advances doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay1048.
Talk at University of California San Diego, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine Seminar Series, San Diego, California
Talk at Colleges of Sciences Dean's Symposium Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Poster at Benthic Ecology Conference, Portland, Maine
Poster at International Coral Reef Society Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
Talk at International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Fiji & the Solomon Islands NIH annual meeting, Atlanta, GA
Poster at Graduate Student Research Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Talk at Symbiofest Conference at the Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, GA
Talk at Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Pasadena, CA
Poster at Suddath Symposium at Georgia Institute of Technology - The Chemical Ecology of Microbiome Interactions, Atlanta, GA
Talk at Benthic Ecology Conference, Corpus Christi, TX
Talk at School of Biology Seminar, Atlanta, GA
Talk at Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Tacoma, WA
Talk at Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography: Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Poster at Ocean Visions Climate Summit, Atlanta, GA
Talk at Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Ensenada, Mexico
Talk at Center for Population Biology Seminar Series, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA