Dr. Carolina Bonin Lewallen
Assistant Professor, Marine and Environmental Science
Location: Marine Science 113
Phone: 757-727-6044
E-mail: carolina.lewallen@hamptonu.edu
Expertise: Population Genetics, Marine Mammal Ecology, Bioinformatics
Dr. Carolina Bonin Lewallen is a marine biologist trained in population genetics and the use of molecular tools to study the ecology and behavior of marine mammals. She earned her PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, CA) working on Antarctic fur seals and continued to devote most of her career to the study of population genetics and mating systems of seals. Dr. Bonin also spent two years at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) as a post-doctoral fellow. While there, she was trained in advanced molecular biology techniques and worked on mining large epigenomic datasets, in particular DNA methylation. At Hampton University, Dr. Bonin Lewallen leads the Marine Mammal Molecular Laboratory (MaMMELab) with several funded projects in genomics and epigenomics of Antarctic ice seals and other marine mammals.
