Edward DeLong | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66) Sonoma, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Santa Rosa Junior College University of California, Davis Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Known for | Work in metagenomics and biogeochemical cycling |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Microbiology |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Doctoral advisor | Art Yayanos Norman Pace (postdoc) |
Edward Francis DeLong (born 1958), is a marine microbiologist and professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii, Manoa,[1] and is considered a pioneer in the field of metagenomics. He is best known for his discovery of the bacterial use of the rhodopsin protein in converting sunlight to biochemical energy in marine microbial communities.