Dr. Tyler Carrier

2024: NOAA Sea Grant of North Carolina (USA), Surveying the blue economy of North Carolina for Rickettsiales ($10.0k)

2022: BBVA Bank (Spain), Genetic adaptability of marine species in gradients natural analogues to the oceans of the future (€121.1k)

2022: Collaborative Research Centre “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms”, Using spatial transcriptomics to explore how an obligate symbiont primes host development (€15.0k)

2022: Ministry for Science and Innovation (Spain), Genomic divergence, plasticity, and microbiome shifts in marine invertebrates along natural environmental gradients (€165.9k)

2021: Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award, UNC Charlotte ($1k)

2020: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (2 years; €85.1k)

2019: Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded, Bacterial from the start: testing for vertical transmission in echinoids (€15.0k)

2019: Charles Lambert Fellowship, Friday Harbor Laboratories ($1.2k)

2019: Smithsonian Institution Graduate Student Fellowship ($7.5k)

2018: Ocean Discovery Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab ($1k)

2018: The KVA Fund (Sweden), Microbial symbioses across phenotypes and oceanographic conditions. (76.1 SEK)

2017: NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide, The microbiome: a mechanism directing major life-history transitions in marine invertebrates? ($9.8k)

2016: Charles Lambert Fellowship, Friday Harbor Laboratories ($3k)

2016: NOAA Sea Grant of North Carolina (USA), Microbiome of Lytechinus variegatus larvae: developing candidate probiotic treatments in aquaculture ($5.0k)

2016: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (3 years; $138k)

2016: Wayland H. Cato Jr. Graduate Fellowship, UNC Charlotte ($18k)

2015: Exceptional New Master’s Student Tuition Award, UNC Charlotte ($17k)

2015: Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid Research (USA), Larval microbiome: inter-kingdom symbiosis for survival and adaptation? ($1.0k)

2014: Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Maine ($1k)

2014: Maine Sea Grant Undergraduate Scholarship in Marine Science ($1k)

2014: NSF REU Fellow, The MDI Biological Laboratory, USA

2014: University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research, Cellular and molecular responses of sea urchin embryos to dissolved saxitoxins from the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense ($1.0k)

2013: NOAA Sea Grant of Maine (USA), Presence of Alexandrium saxitoxins affects the life history of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis echinoplutei ($1.5k)

2013: NSF REU Fellow, Shannon Point Marine Center, USA