Anna Clemencia Guerrero is a PhD candidate and professional scientific illustrator in the Center for Biology and Society. She studies how scientists make and use pictures to understand microbial communities.

Clark-Curtiss is a microbial geneticist who studies Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. She investigates how these bacteria survive and grow within human cells to cause TB.

Gile is an evolutionary microbiologist who studies single-celled eukaryotes (protists) and symbiosis.

Birge is a bacterial geneticist whose research interests were the genetics of Escherichia coli and its viruses. He is no longer active in that field but penned the textbook Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics.

Bean applies bioanalytical chemistry methods to characterize microbial, human, animal, plant, and soil metabolomes to identify biomarkers of health and disease.

Emily is using two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC x GC-TOFMS) to identify volatile metabolites.

Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.