{"id":8,"date":"2018-06-29T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personal-site.dev\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2020-12-29T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:50:21","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage &#8211; Simple with slider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tWelcome to Matt Johnson&#8217;s Laboratory of Protistan Ecology\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<h2>What we study<\/h2>\n<p>We study predator-prey interactions among marine protists- single celled eukaryotes that\u00a0dominate carbon fixation and its consumption in pelagic ocean food webs. My lab focuses on the phenomenon of mixotrophy, which is a common nutritional mode that combines the processes of photosynthesis and phagotrophy within a single organism. In protists, mixotrophy is broadly divided into &#8220;algae&#8221; that eat and &#8220;protozoa&#8221; that steal chloroplasts (i.e. kleptoplasty) or host algal endosymbionts. We take a trait based approach to studying mixotrophy in protists in order to better understand their ecological role, their impact on ocean biogeochemistry, and the evolution of these contrasting nutritional &#8220;strategies&#8221;. We are also interested in studying interactions among marine phytoplankton and microzooplankton in an effort to better understand how protistan grazers modulate primary productivity and its fate.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/06\/lab_group_2015b_384633.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2018\/06\/lab_group_2015b_384633.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the lab group\" height=\"1005\" width=\"1080\" title=\"lab_group_2015b_384633\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tMembers of the lab (Spring 2015) in front of the Stanley W. Watson Laboratory for Biogeochemistry (from left to right: Matt Johnson, Holly Moeller, Elina Peltomaa, Liz Harvey, Christopher Kirby, and David Beaudoin).\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Matt Johnson&#8217;s Laboratory of Protistan Ecology What we study We study predator-prey interactions among marine protists- single celled eukaryotes that\u00a0dominate carbon fixation and its consumption in pelagic ocean food webs. My lab focuses on the phenomenon of mixotrophy, which is a common nutritional mode that combines the processes of photosynthesis and phagotrophy within&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/johnsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}