Alison Gould

Alison Gould is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Temple University's College of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on evolutionary mechanisms regulating microbial symbioses, particularly the bioluminescent relationship between fish in the genus Siphamia and Photobacterium bacteria. She uses genomic and ecological approaches to explore symbiont specificity, transmission, and evolutionary dynamics.

Her work bridges microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, with a focus on marine systems. She has pioneered the use of long-read sequencing and museum genomics to study symbiotic systems. Current projects include analyzing strain-level diversity in symbiont communities and investigating the biogeographic patterns of symbiotic specificity.

Dr. Gould's research has been supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology (2017), which funded her investigation of ecological speciation in symbiotic reef fish. Her lab is based in the BioLife Building, Room 453B/C.