
Emily Stowe, Ph.D.
Bucknell University
Emily Stowe, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Bucknell University. Stowe earned her B.A. from the College of Wooster and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she studied light-regulated gene expression in Arabidopsis. She moved to the microbial world during her postdoc at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she studied light regulated gene expression in cyanobacteria. Since joining the faculty at Bucknell, Stowe has continued to study chromatic acclimation in different species of cyanobacteria and isolate novel chromatic acclimating species from the waters of central Pennsylvania. Currently, she is transitioning her research program to look more broadly at photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in freshwater communities.
In addition to teaching genetics, microbiology, microbial genetics and first-year seminar courses, Stowe is the Director of Bucknell’s STEM Scholars program, where students take part in a 5 week research experience before their first semester. Stowe has mentored more than 60 undergraduate research students and is always eager to welcome first-generation, underrepresented or POSSE scholar students to the lab. At ASM Microbe 2021 (online) she presented the lab’s work on non-photosynthetic freshwater bacteria, which had contributions from 5 POSSE scholars.
In addition to teaching genetics, microbiology, microbial genetics and first-year seminar courses, Stowe is the Director of Bucknell’s STEM Scholars program, where students take part in a 5 week research experience before their first semester. Stowe has mentored more than 60 undergraduate research students and is always eager to welcome first-generation, underrepresented or POSSE scholar students to the lab. At ASM Microbe 2021 (online) she presented the lab’s work on non-photosynthetic freshwater bacteria, which had contributions from 5 POSSE scholars.