Tanja Bosak
Assistant Professor (September 2007)
Ph.D, 2004, California Institute of Technology
Phone: 617-324-3959
Address:
E25-649
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
Email: tbosak@mit.edu
Interests
Studying microbial fossils to understand the parallel evolution of life and the environment. Laboratory experiments on modern microbes to test how microbes shape rocks and why microbes produce unique polycyclic lipid compounds that can persist in sediments for billions of years.
Group
Staff
Mary Elliff
Graduate students
Katherine Harris, Min Sub Sim
