Kent Do Pham, Ph.D.

Postdoc in the project: Mechanisms of growth and survival in freshwater oligotrophs (MEGASO). 

Interested in the ecology of environmental microbial communities. Currently focusing on culturing, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics of freshwater oligotrophs and the mechanisms behind their growth and survival. Previous research includes wheat rhizosphere microbial communities, metagenomics of retting hemp, and greenhouse gas fluxes of agricultural fields.  

Education 

2020 – 2025 Ph.D. in Plant and Soil Sciences. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA 

2016 – 2020 BS in Biology. University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, USA 

Grants and Awards 

2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Grant No. 1839289 

2021 University of Kentucky NRT INFEWS Summer Research Grant  

2020 USDA NIFA Hemp Research. Grant No. 2020-67013-30863 

2018 University of Southern California NSF REU. Grant No. OCE-1559941 

2017 University of the Sciences Undergraduate Research Fund 

Researcher ID: OEO-9869-2025 

ORCID: 0000-0001-9785-0359