Penny Chisholm

Penny Chisholm is an Institute Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the biology, ecology, and evolution of the single most abundant marine phytoplankton species, aiming to understand the forces that shape microbial ecosystems. Chisholm's work spans microbial ecology, ecological genomics, and the study of marine cyanobacteria and viruses. She is affiliated with the Ecology and Evolution, Climate and Environment faculties at MIT and maintains a research website at https://chisholmlab.mit.edu/. Her contact information is chisholm@mit.edu.