Genomics & transcriptomics of microbes involved in methane metabolism

• Genome sequencing and resequencing
• Metabolic reconstruction
• Transcriptomics

Collaborators: Lidstrom Lab including Mary Lidstrom, Mila Chistoserdova, Marina Kalyuzhnaya

Environmental metagenomics in biogeochemical cycling

• Probing the role of methane consumers in the natural environment
• Community dynamics in fresh water sediments
• Nitrogen metabolism

Collaborators: Lidstrom Lab including Mary Lidstrom, Mila Chistoserdova, Marina Kalyuzhnaya

Oral microbial communities and their role in disease

• Proteomics of model oral microbial communities
• Transcriptomics of model oral microbial communities
• Methods development for proteomics of microbial communities

Collaborators: Hackett Lab & Center for Microbial Proteomics

Metagenomics of green building microbiome

• Longitudinal study of the microbial (bacterial / fungal) colonization of  surface & air of Green building
• Occupant tracking and correlation with microbiome
• Occupant behavior modification in response to Green building environment

Collaborators: Meschke Lab, Burpee Group

Wastewater treatment plant microbiome

• Probing the bacterial & viral communities of anaerobic digesters
• Virome analysis of acetoclastic methanogens

Collaborators: Meschke Lab, Heidi Gough, John Ferguson

Funding: Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Bullitt Foundation, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund