Carrier Selected for 2021 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award

Carrier Selected for 2021 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award

Tyler Carrier, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2020, is the 2021 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award winner in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences for his work on “Symbiosis Across Diet-Induced Phenotypes of Larval Sea Urchins”.

Through his research on marine invertebrates, Carrier has examined the ability of organisms to not only find an environment in which they adapt to environmental changes, but when this response may be lost. The focus of his work has been on the role that communities of symbiotic microbes play in helping organisms adapt to environmental changes and how those partnerships change.
“At its core, my dissertation was trying to see where microbial symbioses intersect with our understanding of marine invertebrate reproductive and developmental ecology, each chapter of which being directed at a different pillar of the field,” Carrier said. “The Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics were instrumental in my time at UNCC, providing me access to a wealth of information, resources, and technology that were pivotal to my dissertation.”

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