Microbial Ecology

Diving into the tiny and complex world of microbes, where they live, how they interact, and the ways they influence the world around us. Microbes have an impact on almost everything in the world, from the environment, disease, and many others. I am interested in how microbes can help us to better understand the world around us, as well as how the microbes themselves function. Microbial interactions exist within our bodies as well as within the environment, providing potential avenues for place of origin identification, disease monitoring, environmental interaction regulation, etc. This aim of this research is to provide end users with products that can be used in areas of national security and forensic investigation, as well as in environmental monitoring to be compared with and potentially validate remote sensing observations.