Marjorie Linares

Teaches at Queens Botanical Garden

Marjorie Linares did her PhD work at the University of Sydney in Australia working with algae from the Great Barrier Reef. Her research has linked extensive molecular work to conservation genetics, evolution, and ecology. She obtained her Master's in Molecular Medicine from Charite Medical School in Berlin, where she carried out her thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology studying the mechanism of RNA regulation in bacteria. 

During her undergraduate studies at the University of New Orleans, she did barcoding of butterflies she collected from isolated forests of Madagascar. Her interests are all things algae and the use of advanced molecular tools to answer ecological questions.