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Abby received a joint PhD in Biological Oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2008. Her thesis research with Dr. Timothy Shank (WHOI) characterized spatial and temporal population genetics of deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworms in the Eastern Pacific. Dr. Fusaro has extensive experience working with diverse invertebrate taxa at sea and has logged four dives in the research submersible DSV Alvin. Currently, she manages the Ocean Genome Resource (OGR) collection database and is building OGL's DNA repository for marine specimens. Her research interests include the application of genetic and genomic techniques to marine ecology, evolution, and systematics—especially involving questions of population establishment, maintenance of genetic diversity, and habitat turnover.
Fusaro, A.J., A.R. Baco, G. Gerlach, T.M. Shank. 2008. Development and characterization of 12 microsatellite markers from the deep-sea hydrothermal vent siboglinid Riftia pachyptila. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 132-134.
