Rate My Professor Anna Cho

Anna Cho is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University in the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution. She joined the lab of Jeremy Wideman in 2024. Her doctoral training was completed in the Keeling Lab at the University of British Columbia, where her work centered on stramenopile phylogenomics and microbiomes.

Cho’s research examines mitochondrial genome evolution in microaerophilic protists, the generation of long-read genomic data for ploeotids, and the use of flow cytometry for sorting environmental single cells to obtain single-cell genomes. In 2026 she led a study, published in Current Biology, that identified a previously unknown lineage of microbes and analyzed how mitochondria can become reduced or altered in low-oxygen environments. The work involved collaborators from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and the University of California, Merced.