Congratulations to Darwin Project’s Emily Zakem who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation Linking Microbes and Climate: Insights into the Marine Oxygen and Nitrogen Cycles with Microbial Metabolic Functional Types on March 24.

Following her defense, the newly minted Dr. Zakem was treated to an (exceptionally colorful) reception in the Charney Library creatively catered by her colleagues.

Story image credit: Deepa Rao, cake credit: Jon Lauderdale, Margaret Duffy, and Deepa Rao) - for more pictures visit flickr