Education
PhD in Geomicrobiology and Chemical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Subjects
Geomicrobiology, Chemical Oceanography, Astrobiology, Extremophile Microbiology, Metagenomics
Achievements
BA in Earth and Environmental Sciences (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania; American Society for Microbiology Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship; Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology; honors from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program and the National GEM Consortium; peer-reviewed publications in Nature Communications and Applied and Environmental Microbiology; presented at major international meetings including AbSciCon and the American Society for Microbiology
About
Sabrina graduated with her PhD in Geomicrobiology and Chemical Oceanography from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in December 2025. Her research focused on microbial life in extreme environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents and soda lakes, as analogs for life on other ocean worlds as part of NASA’s Exploring Ocean Worlds team, using metagenomics, RNA-SIP, metatranscriptomics, and single-cell NanoSIMS imaging. She is now a postdoctoral scholar at Pennsylvania State University studying microbiome resiliency in arid soils.
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