About Us

• Aquatic microbiology, phycology, & ecology
• Proteogenomic integration with stable isotope tracing

• Aquatic microbial ecology & biogeochemistry
• Algae–bacteria culturing & characterization
• Chip-SIP technology development

• Environmental microbial ecology
• Isotope tracing/NanoSIMS & plant–microbe interactions
• DOE Early Career Fellow

• Geochemistry, microanalysis, & isotopic analyses
• High resolution imaging

• Advanced scientific computing
• In silico models of cellular processes at genome scale
• Predictive multi-objective models of metabolism in communities

• Root–rhizosphere transcriptomics
• Network analysis
• Stable Isotope Probing

• Bioinformatics
• Computational biologist
• Meta-‘omics analysis & systems biology of communities

• Plant–microbial interactions
• Bioinformatics & computational biology

• Metabolomics
• Bioinformatics
• Plant-microbe interactions

• Algae–bacteria culturing
• Growth analyses using bulk and single-cell approaches

• Plant-microbial interactions
• Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (qSIP)
• Isotope tracing with ¹³C, ¹⁵N and ¹⁸O

• Algal–bacterial interactions
• Microbial ecology
• Metagenomics

John Casey

• Metabolic and physiological modeling of microbial communities
• Constraint-based optimization
• Model-data integration

• Laboratory manager
• Molecular & microbial techniques

• Electron Microscopy
• Sample preparation, embedding, & sectioning

• Algal culturing
• Microbial culturing
• Outdoor algal management

• Soil microbial ecology
• Mycorrhizal fungi
• Molecular techniques

Courtney Swink

• Algal–bacterial interactions
• Algal microbiome
• Algal culturing
• Molecular techniques

• Applied phycology & molecular genetics of microalgae
• Automated analysis of next-gen sequencing for communities
• Macronutrient recycling to promote sustainable algal biomass production

• Environmental microbial ecology & community dynamics
• Technologies for multi-scale analysis of microbial diversity and function
• Development of trait-based models to represent microbial interactions

• Chlamydomonas biology, bioenergetics, & molecular genetics
• Physiology of trace metals and elements in Chlamydomonas
• Bacterial impact on expression of the algal genome

• Microscale flow physics for materials science and microbiology
• Fluid mechanics, phenotyping in microfluidics

• Microfluidics & electrochemical applications to microbial interactions
• Dielectrophoretic technology development for energy applications

• Ecology and evolution of plant–microbe interactions
• Effects of symbiotic fungi on grass physiology
• Community and ecosystem drivers and impacts of microbiomes

• Plant–microbe ecology
• Panicum beneficial partner preference under different nutrient conditions

Rene Boiteau, Assistant Professor

• Organic Biogeochemistry
• Trace metal cycling

Nicole Coffey, Graduate Student

• Trace metal cycling

Mary Kraft, Associate Professor and Robert W. Schaefer Scholar in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Bioimaging
• Single cell analyses
• Membrane imaging

Melanie Brunet, Graduate Student