Jay T. Lennon
Department of Biology · Indiana University
Research Interests
Biodiversity and climate change
Biography
Lennon is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University and former Chair of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (EEB) Section. He teaches a computationally focused graduate course in Quantitative Biodiversity and an undergraduate course on Microbiomes: Host and Environmental Health, and was an instructor for the Microbial Diversity course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole. Previously, Lennon was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) at Michigan State University. He completed postdoctoral training at Brown University and earned a Ph.D. at Dartmouth College, a Master’s degree at the University of Kansas, and a Bachelor’s degree at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) at Syracuse University.
Education
1995 BS Environmental Forest Biology SUNY-ESF at Syracuse 1999 MA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas 2004 Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dartmouth College
Recent Scopus Publications
- Evolutionary bioenergetics of sporulation
- Phage infection fronts trigger early sporulation and viral entrapment in bacterial populations
- Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection
- Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3126-6111
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d-hWatsAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006715837
- Personal Weblink https://lennonlab.github.io/