Melissa Roth
How environment shapes life
 

Melissa S. Roth

Research Biologist

Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley


Email:

Melissa.S.Roth@gmail.com

Education

PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

MSc, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

BSc, Ocean Sciences, Stanford University


Research Interests

I am interested in how environment shapes life, in life that shapes the environment.

Keywords: environmental physiology, evolutionary physiology, ecology, climate change, land-sea interactions, photosynthesis, photoprotection, algae, coral, symbiosis, bioenergy, agriculture, dinoflagellates, fluorescent proteins, GFP, chlorophytes, biogenesis/degradation of chlorophyll complexes, non-photochemical quenching, biodiversity, coastal development and policy, conservation, ecological monitoring