Richard A. Long, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Technology

Florida A&M University

Moving Towards an (Eco)Systems Approach of Understanding Vibrio cholerae

The fields of aquatic microbial ecology and data analytics developed in parallel and often intertwined. Vibrio cholerae, a waterborne pathogen, arguably is the most studied aquatic bacterium. Yet we lack an integrated wholistic understanding of the bacterium as it navigates between two complex and contrasting ecosystems.  Will Big Data Analytics pull all together?