Education:

B.A., magna cum laude, Bowdoin College, Biochemistry 1989
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Joint Program in Biological Oceanography 2000

Research Interests and Projects:

Physiological ecology of phytoplankton; interactions of phytoplankton with trace metals, microbial diversity, mechanisms of Fe uptake.

Current Projects:

• Investigating the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of the bacteria associated with the colonial marine cyanobacteria Trichodesmium , including mechanisms of iron acquisition.
• Evaluating fluorescent stains for use in identifying specific eukaryotic phytoplankton groups using flow cytometry.
• Determining the effects of arsenic toxicity on marine cyanobacteria.

Selected Publications:

2004	Armstrong, E., Granger, J., Mann, E. L., and N. M. Price. (2004) Outer membrane siderophore receptors of heterotrophic oceanic bacteria.  Limnol. Oceanogr. 49(2): 579-587.
2003	Martinez, J. S., Carter-Franklin, J. N., Mann, E. L., Martin, J. D., Haygood, M. G., and A. Butler. (2003) Structure and membrane affinity of a new suite of amphiphilic siderophores produced by a marine bacterium. PNAS 100(7): 3754-3759.
2002	Mann, E. L., Ahlgren, N., Moffett, J. W. and S. W. Chisholm. (2002) Does copper toxicity influence the cell division rates and distributions of the cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus in the Sargasso Sea? Limnol. Oceanogr. 47(4): 976-988.
2000	Mann, E. L., and S. W. Chisholm. (2000) Prochlorococcus cell division rates in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific are limited by iron. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45(5): 1067-1076.
1999	Cavender-Bares, K. K., Mann, E. L., Chisholm, S.W., Ondrusek, M. E., and R. R. Bidigare. (1999) Differential response of equatorial Pacific phytoplankton to iron fertilization. Limnol. Oceanogr. 44(2): 237-246.
1998	Nianzhi, J., Yanhui, Y., Mann, E. L., Chisholm, S. W., and C. Nianhong. (1998). Winter presence of Prochlorococcus in the East China Sea. Chinese Science Bulletin 43(10): 877-878.
1994	Mather, J.P., Krummen, L.A., Roberts, P.E., Gibson, U., Mann, E. L., and D. Stocks. (1994) The role of activin, inhibin, and follistatin in the regulation of reproduction in the male. In: Inhibin and Inhibin-Related Proteins, Vol 3, Burger, H.G., Findlay, J., Robertson, D., de Kretser, D., and F. Petraglia, eds. (Ares-Serono Symposia Publications), pp.223-231.
1993	Krummen, L.A., Woodruff, T.K., DeGuzman, G., Cox, E.T., Baly, D., Mann, E. L., Garg, S., Cossum, P., and J. P. Mather. (1993). Identification and characterization of binding proteins for inhibin and activin in human serum and follicular fluids. Endocrinology 132: 431-433.
1989	Mann, E. L., and C. M. Yentsch. (1989) Neutral lipids in the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii (clone 4C) through the light-dark cycle and cell division. In: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Vol 2, Whatley, K. M. ed. (University of North Carolina Asheville), pp. 383-387.