I am a post-doctoral fellow working for Margie Romine. My office is in BSF room 2102E. Activities that I am involved in include:

Development of axenic cultures from UCC Targeted gene knock-out in axenic cultures Phenotypic testing of growth properties of axenic cultures Cross-feeding assays to test metabolic co-dependencies RT-PCR analysis to test regulon predictions development of cultures for testing chemical probes and new metabolomics capabilities and analysis of results of probe assays

FSFA PI, Laboratory Fellow, Chief Scientist for Microbiology. 30 years at PNNL.

I run the Microbial Cell Dynamics Laboratory (MCDL) with cultivation technologies ranging from growing biofilms to 90L pilot scale bioreactors and many sizes of bioreactors.

S&E II (25-year PNNL veteran). B.S., Agronomy (Ohio State), M.S., Technical Communication (RPI)