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Our Microbiome Community

THE COSMIC FACULTY NETWORK

From its beginnings as a university-wide faculty cluster-hire spanning nearly all 8 colleges, CoSMic has grown into one of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary microbiome communities. Explore our researchers and their expertise and affiliations.

Name		Title	College	Department	Research Area	CoSMic Role
Kelly Wrighton	G+	Endowed Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences	Soil & Crop Sciences; Microbiology, Immunology, & Pathology	Human-host, Animal-host, Plant-host, Soils/subsurface (terrestrial), Engineered, Computational + Methods	Leadership
Jessica Metcalf	G+	Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences	Animal Sciences	Animal-host, Human-host, Soils/subsurface (terrestrial)	Leadership
Tiffany Weir	G+	Professor	College of Health and Human Sciences	Food Science and Human Nutrition	Human-host	Leadership
Kayla Borton	G+	Assistant Professor	College of Health and Human Sciences	Food Science and Human Nutrition	Soils/subsurface (terrestrial), Aquatic, Computational + Methods	Leadership
Zaid Abdo	G+	Professor	College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences	Microbiology, Immunology, & Pathology	Human-host, Animal-host, Computational + Methods	Advisor
Susan De Long	G+	Assistant Professor	College of Engineering	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Soils/subsurface (terrestrial), Engineered, Aquatic	Advisor
Erika Szymanski	G+	Associate Professor of Rhetoric of Science	College of Liberal Arts	English	Science and Technology Studies (STS), Rhetoric of Science	Advisor
Joshua Chan	G+	Associate Professor	College of Engineering	Chemical and Biological Engineering	Human-host, Engineered, Computational + Methods, Soils/subsurface (terrestrial)
Ed Hall	G+	Associate Professor	Warner College of Natural Resources	Ecosystem Science and Sustainability	Aquatic	Advisor
Mike Wilkins	G+	Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences	Soil & Crop Sciences	Plant-host, Soils/subsurface (terrestrial), Engineered, Aquatic	Advisor
Matt Koslovsky	G+	Assistant Professor	Warner College of Natural Resources	Statistics	Computational + Methods
Ken Reardon	G+	Professor and Associate Dean	College of Engineering	Chemical and Biological Engineering	Engineered,Aerobiome
Björn Willige	G+	Assistant Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences	Soil & Crop Sciences	Plant-host
Corey Broeckling	G+	Director: Analytical Resources Core - Bioanalysis and Omics Center	Vice President for Research	Analytical Resources Core	Analytical sciences
James Henriksen	G+	Research Scientist	Warner College of Natural Resources, College of Engineering	Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory	Soils/subsurface (terrestrial), Engineered, Computational + Methods, Aquatic, Environmental Microbiology, Plant-host
Minghua Tang	G+	Professor/Lillian Fountain Smith Endowed Chair	College of Health and Human Sciences	Food Science and Human Nutrition	Pediatric Nutrition
Eduardo Gutierrez-Rodriguez	G+	Associate Professor in Food Safety Systems	College of Agricultural Sciences	Horticulture and Landscape Architecture	Fresh Produce Safety Lab
Peipei Zhang	G+	Assistant Professor of Food Microbiology	College of Agricultural Sciences	Animal Sciences	Animal-host, Aerobiome, Meat microbiome
Claire De La Serre	G+	Associate Professor	College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences	Biomedical Sciences	Animal-host
Jane Stewart	G+	Associate Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences	Agricultural Biology	Plant-host, Aerobiome
Claudia Boot	G+	Associate Research Professor	Warner College of Natural Resources	Chemistry	Soils/subsurface (terrestrial), Aquatic
Jan Leach	G+	Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences	Agricultural Biology	Plant-host, Aerobiome	Advisor
Jessica Henley		NGS Core Coordinator	College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences	Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories	Next Generation Sequencing Core	Advisor
Sarah Raabis	G+	Assistant Professor	College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences	Clinical Sciences	Animal-host
Leo Deiss	G+	Assistant Professor	College of Agricultural Sciences	Soil & Crop Sciences	Soil Health and Nutrient Management
Carol Wilusz	G+	Professor	College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences	Microbiology, Immunology, & Pathology		Advisor
Melissa Reynolds		Professor	College of Biomedical Engineering	Chemistry		Advisor