Who we are

We are an academic research group at MIT, affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (http://cee.mit.edu/), the Department of Biological Engineering (http://web.mit.edu/be/), the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Joint Program (http://mit.whoi.edu/), and the MIT graduate program in Microbiology (http://web.mit.edu/microbiology/).

We are also investigators and participants in the Center of Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. (http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu/)

What we do

The DeLong lab investigates the structure, function and ecological significance of natural microbial communities in natural settings.
Our focus is on the marine environment, and includes studies of microbes and microbial processes in a variety of marine habitats.