Delgado’s research focuses on synthetic microbiomes for treatment of contaminants and production of high-value biochemicals.

Cadillo-Quiroz studies how microbes drive ecosystem and applied processes to find climate solutions

Okie is a biologist, complexity scientist, and astrobiologist interested in the fundamental laws and theories governing life’s distribution, organization, macroevolution, and metabolism on Earth and beyond.

Whisner's research focuses on the effects of diet on human metabolism.

Vermaas and his team conduct basic and applied research on cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic microbes, using these organisms as a chassis to produce useful compounds (biofuels, green chemicals) from sunlight and CO2.

Rajeev Misra is a microbial geneticist who studies how proteins, synthesized in the cytoplasm, are targeted to the bacterial outer membrane. He also examines the mechanisms of drug resistance.

Ozga is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Center for Evolution & Medicine. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in 2015 for his dissertation on Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas.

Junwen Wang is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics working on bioinformatics, computational genomics and precision medicine.