Cyberinfrastructure for Microbial Ecology

Developing cyberinfrastructure for microbial ecology to enable high-resolution comparison of microbes in dynamic ecosystems

Algorithm and Tool Development for Metagenomics

Developing novel algorithms for annotating and comparing sequence data that run on parallel and distributed computing environments to optimize resource usage including: compute cycles, input-output (I/O), memory hierarchies, and energy consumption

Detection of Novel Biomarkers and Diagnostic Development

Exploring microbial interactions in diverse habitats ranging from the global ocean for field diagnostic development, to clinical infections in wounds for phage therapy using ‘omics technologies