Bio
Nanushka Mia Bonano-Collazo is from Cataño, Puerto Rico’s smallest coastal town, and is a first-generation and first-year PhD student working in the labs of Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff and Dr. Eric Schott at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology. During her graduate studies, she investigated microbial communities in Puerto Rico’s bioluminescent lagoons under the mentorship of Dr. Natasha I. DeLeón-Rodríguez. In her doctoral research, she aims to investigate the ecology of harmful algal blooms (HABs) microbiome, especially Karenia brevis in the southeastern United States and the Sargassum in Puerto Rico's coastal waters. Nanushka is a NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center Fellow and a Científico Latino, Inc. GSMI 2025 Alumni Program Scholar.
Education
- MSc |Microbiology - Molecular Diagnostics | Inter-American University of Puerto Rico – Metropolitan Campus | 2024
- BSc | Microbiology | Inter-American University of Puerto Rico – Metropolitan Campus | 2021