University of Michigan
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Vincent Denef

Vincent Denef

  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D. Applied Biological Sciences, LabMET, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 2005
Denef Lab

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    1141/1027 Kraus Natural Science Building
    830 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
  • Office: (734) 764-6481
  • Lab: (734) 936-5777
  • Fax: (734) 763-0544
  • Email: vdenef@umich.edu

Fields of study

Freshwater microbial evolutionary ecology, community and population genomics

Academic background

Postdoc, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-2011
Visiting Scholar, Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, 2000-2005
Ph.D., Applied Biological Sciences, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 2005
M.Sc., Bio-engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2001
B.S., Bio-engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium, 1999

Graduate students

Marian Schmidt

UM affiliation

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Related news

Coveted NSF Graduate Research Fellowships announced

EEB Ph.D. student Marian Schmidt and incoming Ph.D. student Joanna Larson have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

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EEB in first round of MCubed with two projects

Three EEB professors were selected for the first round of MCubed, a first-of-its-kind, real-time research funding initiative at U-M that puts $15 million into the hands of professors to jump start new projects they believe in.

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LSA Magazine feature: Tiny Wars We Barely Understand

The fall issue of LSA Magazine featured the microbial research of Professors Gregory Dick and Vincent Denef’s in vast and mysterious lakes and caves.

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