PMI Team

ORNL Corporate Fellow and Section Head for Bioimaging and Analytics.

Expertise in biochemistry, molecular and cellular imaging, nanomaterials, synthetic biological systems. Recipient of the R&D 100 Award and National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer.

Senior Staff Scientist and Group Leader for Integrative Microbiomics.

Expertise in bacterial physiology, microbial biology genomics, microbe-microbe interactions and protein-protein interactions.

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

A plant molecular physiologist with expertise in metabolite profiling using mass spectrometry for molecular phenotypic characterization of plants and microbes.

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

Staff Scientist in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry. A Bioanalytical Chemist with expertise in biological mass spectrometry and systems-scale modeling of biological networks.

Technical Professional in Synthetic Biology.

Staff Scientist in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry with expertise in the development and application of the next generation of techniques for the chemical characterization of complex systems.

Associate Staff Scientist in Plant Systems Biology.

Research and Development Staff Scientist and Group Leader for Plant Systems Biology. Plant molecular biology and molecular genetics, plant signal transduction.

Technical Professional in Computational and Predictive Biology. Quantitative/statistical geneticist with interests in complex traits, local adaptation, and genomic selection in plants.

Staff Scientist in Integrative Microbiomics. Ecosystem Ecologist with expertise in Microbial diversity and Microbial community dynamics.

Technical Professional in Plant Systems Biology.

Staff Scientist in Synthetic Biology. Her focus is in engineering synthetic biology tools.

Master Technician in Plant Systems Biology.

Professor of Microbiology, University of Washington. National Academy of Science Member.  Co-recipient of the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for his work in quorum sensing. His expertise is in sociomicrobiology, quorum sensing systems, biofilm biology, and regulation of virulence genes.

Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Endowed Professor in Microbiology, University of Washington. Member of the National Academy of Sciences, AAAS and American Academy of Microbiology. Procter & Gamble Award recipient in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Her expertises is in metabolic networks, bacterial signaling, and bioenergy production.

Distinguished Research Scientist and Group Leader of Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry. His expertise is in biological mass spectrometry and high-performance mass spectrometry.

Chief Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology.  His expertise is in machine learning, next generation sequencing bioinformatics, and computational biology.  Recipient of the 2018 Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance advanced computing.

Technical Professional in Plant Systems Biology Her expertise is in genetics, systems biology, and molecular biology.

Associate Staff Scientist in Plant Systems Biology. His research focuses on the development and subsequent application of mathematical, computational, and statistical methods of biological datasets.

Senior Staff Scientist in Plant Systems Biology. Expertise in plant biology, and molecular biology.

Data Management Lead Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology, FAIR Strategic Team Lead, and National Microbiome Data Collaborative. ORNL and Data Management Lead for the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI).

Experimental Technologist in Plant Systems Biology. He oversees and helps drive development of the Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory.

Staff Scientist, ORNL and Group Leader of Molecular and Cellular Imaging. Her expertise is in molecular genetics, flourescent imaging, and biofilm mechanisms and cell biology.

Distinguished Staff Scientist in Integrative Microbiomics. AAALS member. Microbiologist with expertise in single cell genomics, metagenomics, and evolutionary genomics.

Senior Staff Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology with expertise in predictive modeling of plant genotype x environment x microbiome interactions and bio-design.

Senior Research Staff Scientist and Section Head of the Nanomaterials Synthesis Section at the Center for Nanophase Sciences.  His expertise is in biomedical engineering, nanofabrications, microfluidics, and microscale bacterial cultivation systems.

Staff Member in Synthetic Biology. A fungal systems and plant pathologist with expertise in fungal behavior, signaling, secondary metabolism production, and taxonomy through bioinformatics.

Staff Scientist in Molecular and Cellular Imaging. Brian’s expertise is in chemistry and biology with interests in metals in biology, metalloenzymes, and development of molecular reporters and small molecule therapeutics.

Senior Staff Scientist in Integrative Microbiomics. A microbial ecologist with expertise in plant-microbe interactions and soil biogeochemistry.

Research Scientist, University of Washington. Her expertise is in quorum-sensing systems.

Research Staff Scientist in Computational and Predictive Biology Group.  Her focus is averaging a variety of computational methods to identify, on a proteome-wide scale, the structure-dynamics relationships underlying function of proteins of interest.

French National Institute for Agricultural Research/INRAE, Nancy, France. Her expertise is in molecular plant pathology, molecular biology, and fungal biology.

Professor of Biology, Duke University. Expertise in fungal evolutionary genetics, and molecular systematics.

Technical Professional in Molecular and Cellular Imaging with expertise in molecular genetics and microbiology.

Staff Scientist in Plant Systems Biology with expertise in molecular plant physiology and computational biology.

Senior Staff Scientist in Synthetic Biology. His expertise is in plant molecular biology, bioinformatics, computational genomics, and transcriptome sequencing.

Technical Professional in Plant Systems Biology.

Staff Scientist in Molecular and Cellular Imaging. A plant ecophysiologist with expertise in root biology, image-based phenotyping, and gas flux analysis.

Jonghyun Kim

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry focusing on metaproteome and metabolome measurements of constructed microbial communities to help decipher plant-microbiome interactions related to stress and resilience. Jonghyun received his Ph.D. in Environmental Mass Spectrometry from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea

Bal Maharjan

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 in Computational and Predictive Biology. Dileep received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at 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.

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

Shane Franklin

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational and Predictive Biology. Mallory will be using a systems biology approach to understand genetic mechanisms underlying the Populus trichocarpa microbiome.

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, 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, at the University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology. Mentor: Mircea Podar

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

Armin Geiger

A student working with Dan Jacobson has transitioned off the project.

JunHyung (Jun) Lee

Jun accepted a facility position at Syracuse University.

Will Argiroff

Will’s research at ORNL focused on exploring the processes that control the assembly of the Populus microbiome and its role in determining host stress tolerance. He is now a computational biologist at Pluton Biosciences.

Wellington Muchero

His expertise is in plant pathology, molecular genetics, quantitative genetics, and genomics.

Alex Fisch

Former ORNL Postdoc. Alex is currently working at Exela Pharma Services as a Clinical Research Scientist.

Jamie McBrien

No longer is an Assistant Greenhouse Technician in  Plant Systems Biology ORNL

Yi-Syuan Guo

Post doc at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Jaime Lorenzo Dinglasan

Is now a post-doctoral research associate with the Joint Genome Institute.

John (Izaak) Miller

Izaak has taken a staff position at the University of Tennessee.

Staff Scientist, Biosciences Division, ORNL.  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, New York.

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, Missouri, United States.

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

Aditya Barde

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

Patricia Blair Saint-Vincent

Associate Staff Member, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group, Biosciences Division, ORNL.

Assistant Professor, Molecular and Plant Sciences, Michigan State University.
Bonito Lab: https://bonito.psm.msu.edu/

Steve Brown

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.

Dana Carper

Technical Professional at Oak Ridge National Labs.  A member of the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group and project manager of the Secure Ecosystem Engineering Design SFA.

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University in Canada.  He will be working in Dr. Laurence Yang’s lab developing predictive bacterial metabolic models.

Nicholas Dove

AgBiome, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Kasey Estenson

Medical Director, US Medical Affairs at Eisai US
Philadelphia

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, 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

Jesse Labbé

Associate Director, Invaio Sciences, Cambridge, MA.

Zhou Li

Senior Scientist, Pfizer NY in the Greater NY area.

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

Chongle Pan

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Plant Biology and Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
https://www.thepanlab.com/

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; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Little Rock, AR.

Grace Satterfield

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

Peter Shankles

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Dr. Todd Sulchek at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), 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.

Collin Timm

Research Scientist, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland http://ww.jhuapl.edu/

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 at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Department of Environmental Science and Ecology

Sushmitha Vijaya Kumar

Staff Scientist, Roswell Biotechnologies, San Diego, CA.

Manuel Ivan Villalobos Solis

Process Development Scientist, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Deborah Weighill

Post-doctoral research associate 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.