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Multiscale Microbial Dynamics Modeling Summer School
  • July 6-10, 2020
    SCIENCE CONFERENCE
    Richland, Washington
         
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Mark Borkum
Dr. Mark Borkum is a Computer Scientist at PNNL. His work focuses on the usage and application of computer science and software engineering techniques and technologies to enable and to support interdisciplinary research.
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Mikayla Borton
Mikayla Borton is a graduate student at Colorado State University in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. Her research interrogates how microbial community metabolism impacts ecosystem processes using multi-omics approaches.
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Eoin Brodie
Dr. Eoin Brodie is Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, and an Adjunct Professor at University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the feedbacks between microorganisms and their natural environments, with a primary focus on soil and subsurface systems.
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Xingyuan Chen
Dr. Xingyuan Chen is an Earth Scientist at PNNL. Her research experience in groundwater flow and transport modeling, stochastic inverse modeling, data assimilation, geostatistics, and ecohydrology.
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Bob Danzcak
Dr. Bob Danzcak is a Post-Doctoral researcher at PNNL. understanding the linkages between ecological assembly processes and biogeochemical function using various computational tools, including bioinformatics and cheminformatics.
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Janaka Edirisinghe
Dr. Janaka Edirisinghe is an assistant scientist in bioinformatics at Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests focus on metabolic modeling and comparative genomics.
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Emily Graham
Dr. Emily Graham is an Earth Scientist at PNNL. Her research focuses on environmental science, microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, wetland and subsurface biology, and urban ecology.
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Ulas Karaoz
Dr. Ulas Karaoz is a Research Scientist with the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology, environmental sciences and microbial ecology.
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Marco Keiluweit
Dr. Marco Keiluweit is an Assistant Professor of Soils and the Environment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the College of Natural Sciences. His research broadly focuses on the response of soil processes to climate change--how changing environmental conditions effect fundamental ecological mechanisms that control the fate of essential elements, like the cycling and storage of carbon.
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Lee Ann McCue
Dr. Lee Ann McCue is a Computational Scientist at PNNL and EMSL. Her research includes the analysis of microbial populations and metagenomes for microbial ecology studies, and the application of high-performance computing techniques to handle data created by current sequencing technologies.
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Christof Meile
Dr. Christof Meile is a Professor at the University of Georgia in the Department of Marine Sciences. His research focuses on reactive transport modeling and biogeochemical cycling, microbial metabolism, in silico microbial models and upscaling, nutrient dynamics, and human impacts at the land-ocean interface.
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Bill Nelson
Dr. Bill Nelson is a Computational Scientist at PNNL. His research focuses on microbiome science.
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Michelle Newcomer
Dr. Michelle Newcomer is a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division. Her research focuses on analyzing the effects of climate perturbations on hydrological and biogeochemical cycling in hyporheic zones.
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Becca Rubinstein
Dr. Becca Rubinstein is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Subsurface Insights. Her research focuses on classical environmental engineering problems using novel approaches and advanced techniques from other disciplines, particularly advanced computational methods such as machine learning.
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Tim Scheibe
Dr. Tim Scheibe is an Earth Scientist and Lab Fellow at PNNL and EMSL. His research focuses on groundwater-surface water interactions and controls on watershed biogeochemistry, characterization and modeling of natural subsurface heterogeneity and its impacts on contaminant transport in groundwater systems, subsurface biogeochemistry including microbial transport and bioremediation of metals and radionuclides, multiscale modeling of coupled biogeochemical processes in porous media, and parameter estimation and conceptual model uncertainty characterization.
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Michael Shaffer
Dr. Michael Shaffer is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Colorado State University. His research includes the development of bioinformatics tools for microbial genomics and data integration as well as multi-omics focused investigation of gut microbial communities.
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Hyun-Seob Song
Dr. Hyun-Seob Song is a Computational Biologist and Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in the Biological Systems Engineering Department. His research focuses on microbiome modeling and engineering, metabolic network modeling, biological network interference, agent-based modeling, and AI-based modeling.
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Rekha Seshadri
Dr. Rekha Seshadri is a Research Scientist at LBNL and the Joint Genome Institute. Her research focuses on microbiology, computational biology, biotechnology, and genomics
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James Stegen
Dr. James Stegen is an Earth Scientist at PNNL. His research focuses on interfaces between microbial ecology and biogeochemistry.
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Pamela Weisenhorn
Dr. Pamela Weisenhorn is an Assistant Computational Ecologist at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research focuses on the role of microbial metabolism in biogeochemical processes, wetland ecology, soil ecology, and plant-microbial interactions.
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Kelly Wrighton
Dr. Kelly Wrighton is an Assistant Professor of soil microbiomes at Colorado State University, College of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on how microorganisms contribute to ecosystem processes, with emphasis in carbon and nitrogen cycling.
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