PMI Team

ORNL Corporate Fellow and Section Head for Bioimaging and Analytics.

Distinguished Scientist and Group Leader for Integrative Microbiomics.

Distinguished Research Scientist and Section Head for Biodesign and Systems Biology.

Project Manager for the Plant-Microbe Interfaces SFA.  A member of Molecular and Cellular Imaging.

Staff Scientist and Bioanalytical Chemist in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry

Staff Scientist and Analytical Chemist in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry

Associate Staff Scientist and Ecologist in Plant Systems Biology

Technical Professional in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry

Staff Scientist, Plant Molecular Biologist, and Group Leader in Plant Systems Biology

Technical Professional in Quantitative/statistical genetics in Computational and Predictive Biology

Staff Scientist and Ecosystem Ecologist in Integrative Microbiomics

Staff Scientist and Non-Model Bacterial Synthetic Biologist in Synthetic Biology

Staff Scientist and Computational Biophysical Chemist in Molecular Biophysics

Master Technician in Plant Systems Biology

Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington

Distinguished Research Scientist and Group Leader of Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry

Technical Professional in Synthetic Biology

Distinguished Research Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology

Technical Professional in Plant Systems Biology

Master Technician in Synthetic Biology

Associate Staff Scientist in Plant Systems Biology

Senior Staff Scientist in Plant Systems Biology

Data Management Lead Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology

Experimental Technologist in Plant Systems Biology

Staff Scientist and Group Leader of Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Distinguished Staff Scientist in Integrative Microbiomics

Senior Staff Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology

Senior Staff Scientist and Section Head of the Nanomaterials Synthesis Section at the Center for Nanophase Sciences

Staff Member and Mycologist in Synthetic Biology

Staff Scientist and Chemist in Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Senior Staff Scientist and Microbial Ecologist in  Integrative Microbiomics

Research Scientist at the  University of Washington

Computer Vision Developer in Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Research Staff Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology

Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRAE, in Nancy, France.

Professor of Biology and Mycologist at Duke University

Technical Professional in Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Staff Scientist and Molecular Plant Physiologist in Plant Systems Biology

Senior Staff Scientist and Molecular Plant Biologist in Synthetic Biology

Technical Professional in Plant Systems Biology

Staff Scientist and Plant Ecophysiologist in Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Delaney Beals

Postdoctoral Research Associate researching bacterial behaviors and interactions within the rhizosphere that are beneficial to Populus survival in Integrative Microbiomics

Postdoctoral Research Associate investigating network connections within constructed microbial communities, focusing on cell-to-cell communication and functional redundancy in Molecular and Cellular Imaging

A microbial ecologist with a PhD from Colorado State University researching the impact of drought on plant-microbial community composition, co-occurrence, and assembly in Integrative Microbiomics

A biosystems scientist with a Ph.D. in Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Nematology with a focus in phenotypic responses in host selection and interactions in Synthetic Biology

Postdoctoral Research Associate responsible for constructing microfluidic devices to examine microbial community organization in response to physical and chemical constraints in Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Postdoctoral Research Associate focusing on metaproteome and metabolome measurements of constructed microbial communities to help decipher plant-microbiome interactions related to stress and resilience in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry

Postdoctoral Research Associate with a PhD. in Bioinformatics from Boston University. His research uses KBase as a platform to model microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions and employs these predictions to direct experimental analyses in Computational and Predictive Biology

A plant molecular and cellular biologist with a PhD from the University of Florida researching computational tools to uncover the molecular processes driving the interactions between Populus and its associated microbiome in Computational and Predictive Biology

Bal grew up in Nepal and received his PhD from Texas A&M University. Bal is designing and testing biosensors, facilitating high throughput screening of beneficial plant-microbe interactions, and functionally characterizing genes and pathways in Plant Systems Biology

Postdoctoral Research Associate investigating a systems biology approach to understanding genetic mechanisms underlying the Populus trichocarpa microbiome in Computational and Predictive Biology

PhD Graduate Student, Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee. Mentor: Robert Hettich

PhD Graduate Student, The Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee. Mentor:  Dan Jacobson

PhD Graduate Student, Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee. Mentor: Jenny Morrell-Falvey

PhD Graduate Student, The Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee. Mentor: Dan Jacobson.

PhD Graduate Student, The Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee. Mentor:  Dan Jacobson

Graduate Student, Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee. Mentor: Robert Hettich

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee. Mentor: Mircea Podar

Graduate Student, Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee. Mentor: Jenny Morrell-Falvey

Kuntal De

Owner of PAN Biology Corporation

Armin Geiger

A student working with Dan Jacobson has transitioned off the project

JunHyung (Jun) Lee

Facility staff member at Syracuse University

Will Argiroff

Computational biologist at Pluton Biosciences

Wellington Muchero

Former researcher in plant pathology, molecular genetics, and quantitative genetics at ORNL

Alex Fisch

Clinical Research Scientist at Exela Pharma Services

Jamie McBrien

No longer is an Assistant Greenhouse Technician at ORNL

Yi-Syuan Guo

Postdoc at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jaime Lorenzo Dinglasan

Postdoc with the Joint Genome Institute

John (Izaak) Miller

Izaak has taken a staff position at the University of Tennessee

Staff Scientist who transferred off the project but still works at ORNL as a member of the Synthetic Biology Group.  Microbiologist and Metabolic Engineer

Bryan Piatkowski

Researcher at the Mayo Clinic

David Kainer

David is now working for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture

Mikaela Cashman McDevitt

Staff member at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working on KBase

Jaclyn Noshay

Data Scientist at Bayer in Computational Genetics

Muneeba Khalid

Senior Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Rensselaer, NY

Him Shrestha

Postdoctoral Researcher at St. Jude Children’s Hospital

Mindy Clark

Research Operations Support Professional at ORNL

Jia Wang

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Food Science at University of Tennessee in Knoxville

Kevin Cope

Plant Physiology Scientist II at Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO

Tae-Hyuk Ahn

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO

Jayde Aufrecht

Post-doctoral fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Recipient of the Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship

Raghu Ram Badmi

Scientific Writer, and Project Manager, Umeå Plant Science Center, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden

Aditya Barde

Clinical Laboratory Technologist IV Next Generation Sequencing,  Sema4.
Stamford, CT

Patricia Blair Saint-Vincent

Former PMI Postdoc and former associate staff member in the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group at ORNL

Assistant Professor, Molecular and Plant Sciences, Michigan State University

Anthony Bryan

Technical Director – Molecular Genetics, Biopathology Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus OH

Posy Busby

Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Alisha G. Campbell

Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO

Jennifer Childers

Research Associate I at Pivot Bio, St. Louis, MO

Karuna Chourey

Director, Cultivation Research and Operations at Plantible Foods, San Diego, CA

Stephan Christel

Biosolutions Lead Biohydrometallurgy, Cemvita Factory, Westminster, CO

Ashley Cliff

Computational Biologist currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Bruna Gonçalves Coutinho

Interim Manager, Process Development, at BioVectra, Inc., Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

W. Nathan Cude

Senior Scientist at Novozymes, North America, Durham, NC

Olaf Czarnecki

Research Associate at KWS SAAT SE, Einbeck, Germany

Sanjeev Dahal

Postdoc in the Dept of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University in Canada in Dr. Laurence Yang’s lab

Nicholas Dove

AgBiome, Research Triangle Park, NC

Kasey Estenson

Medical Director, US Medical Affairs at Eisai US,
PA

Benjamin Garcia

Computational Biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

David Garcia

NRC Postdoctoral fellow, US Army DEVCOM, Chemical Biology Center

Hector F. Castro Gonzalez

Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee

Cyd Hamilton

Arborist and Plant Doctor at Better Nature Solutions

Michelle Halsted

Operations & Systems Engineer at Mobius, Everett, Washington

Ryan Hansen

Associate Professor at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, in the Department of Chemical Engineering

Piet Jones

Data Scientist at Arva Intelligence

Se-Ran Jun

Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, Little Rock, AR

Jesse Labbé

Associate Director, Invaio Sciences, Cambridge, MA

Zhou Li

Senior Scientist, Pfizer NY in the Greater NY area

Hui-Ling (Sunny) Liao

Assistant Professor, Soil Microbial Ecology
North Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy, FL

Brian Looney

Postdoctoral fellow in the David Hibbet Lab at Clark University, Worchester, MA

Haiwei Lu

Biology Professor at Central Community College, Hastings, NE

Anna Matthiadis

Scientist, Technology and Development, Elo Life Systems, Durham, NC

Ryan McCormick

Senior Research Associate at Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA

Ben Mohr

Lead Cell-Free Scientist, LanzaTech, Skokie, IL

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Plant Biology and Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Marek Piątek

Director of Bioinformatics at Ardigen, Kraków, Poland

Jonathan Plett

Research Fellow at Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Australia

Michael Robeson

Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Little Rock, AR

Grace Satterfield

Medical Science Writer/Editor
University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN

Peter Shankles

Postdoc in the lab of Dr. Todd Sulchek at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Migun Shakya

Computational Biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Poornima Sukumar

Patent Analyst at Cardinal Intellectual Property, Austin, TX

Yali Sun

Scientist II with Abclonal Technology, Woburn, MA

Research Scientist, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD

Sandra Huynh Truong

Research Scientist, Crop Systems Modeling at Corteva Agriscience

Jessie Uehling

Assistant professor, Fungal Biology in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

David Ussery

Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Biomedical Informatics. , Little Rock, AR

Sagar Utturkar

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in the Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

Allison Veach

Assistant professor in the Dept of Environmental Science and Ecology at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Sushmitha Vijaya Kumar

Staff Scientist, Roswell Biotechnologies, San Diego, CA

Manuel Ivan Villalobos Solis

Process Development Scientist, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

Deborah Weighill

Postdoc at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A member of Dr. Jen’s  Jen Yeh Lab  in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Pope Fellowship Award Recipient

Qiuming Yao

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Zhihao Zhang

Associate Professor at China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China