Methodology

First, I develop innovative techniques to collect environmental or host-associated samples, such as by deploying passive dust collectors or using magnets to concentrate microbial particles from low biomass samples.

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Next, I work to isolate microorganisms, culture fungi, and extract nucleic acids for characterizing microbiome structure.

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Finally, I examine eco-physiological parameters that determine how these microbes respond to or affect their surrounding environment.

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My work applies in polluted or degraded urban and natural systems, along with the associated environmental justice frameworks and implications of health disparities research.

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Whether it is modeling large ecological or demographic datasets, or decoding the noise in the big -Omics datasets, I strive to describe the emergent processes that interact with the spatial or temporal patterns we observe in our collected data.