Faculty & Affiliates

  • Assistant Professor – Department of Marine Sciences Faculty Bio – Lab Website Research Focus: Nutrient cycling among marine phytoplankton

  • Assistant Professor – Department of Marine Sciences Faculty Bio – Lab Website Research Focus: Marine microbes and global biogeochemical cycles.

  • Avishek Dutta

    Assistant Professor – Department of Geology Faculty Bio ● Lab Website Research Focus: Microbial communities in extreme environments & contamination.

  • Associate Professor – Department of Microbiology Faculty Bio ● Lab Website Research Focus: Waterway microbiomes, insect (cockroach) gut microbiome

  • Aditya Mishra

    Assistant Professor – Department of Statistics Research focus: Statistics of big data, including microbiome analysis Faculty Bio

  • Adrienne Hoarfrost

    Assistant Professor – Marine Sciences Faculty Bio – Lab Website Applications of machine learning to ocean microbiomes, the carbon cycle, and climate change

  • Jeff Bennetzen

    Professor – Department of Genetics Faculty Bio ● Lab Website Research Focus: Microbiomes of grasses (sorghum, millets, etc.)

  • Holly Bik

    Assistant Professor – Department of Marine Sciences / Institute of Bioinformatics Faculty Bio ● Lab Website Research Focus: Marine microbes, especially microscopic eukaryotes in marine sediment

  • Wenxuan Zhong

    Professor – Department of Statistics Faculty Bio ● Lab Website Research Focus: Statistical analysis of large datasets

  • Jason Wallace

    Associate Professor – Department of Crop & Soil Sciences Faculty Bio ● Lab Website Research Focus: Microbiomes of crop plants; how host genetics influences plant microbiomes Research Summary (2017)