Lisa M. Bono
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
I study the ecology and evolution of viruses by combining field, bench, and computational approaches. I work with a model system of the dsRNA Pseudomonas phage φ6, as well as natural populations of RNA viruses to understand the origins and maintenance of viral genetic and phenotypic diversity. My teaching expertise covers a broad range of topics in ecology and evolution of microbes, with an eye towards viruses, including Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) classes in Experimental Evolution and Virus Discovery and Evolution.
I currently work with Siobain Duffy in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers. I previously worked with Paul Turner at Yale University and was co-advised by Jeremy Draghi, now at Virginia Tech. For my PhD, I was advised by Christina Burch, who turned me to the dark side a.k.a viruses, and David Pfennig in the Dept. of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I received my MS from Ohio University while being advised by Molly Morris and Oscar Ríos-Cárdenas at the Instituto de Ecología INECOL in Mexico.
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