Areas of expertise: microbiome of Earth’s systems (including soil, atmosphere, plants, water, humans, invertebrates, and animals), combining ecology, bio(geo)chemistry, molecular biology, and mathematical models to understand, predict, and harness microbiome function
Romy Chakraborty
Areas of expertise: microbiome, microbial dark matter, bioprospecting, carbon cycle, bioremediation, plant growth promoting microbes
Nigel Mouncey
Areas of expertise: bioproducts, engineering biology, natural products, fermentation, microbiome, microbial genetics, biomanufacturing
Susannah Tringe
Areas of expertise: microbial communities, microbiology of produced water recycling, wetland greenhouse gas cycling, plant-microbe interactions
Trent Northen
Areas of expertise: microbial communities, ecosystem metabolites, exometabolomics
Adam Arkin
Areas of expertise: systems and synthetic biology, environmental microbiology of bacteria and viruses, bioenergy, biomedicine, bioremediation