Postdoc: volatiles mass spectrometry and machine learning
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Postdoc: engineering microbial consortia
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BS/MS/or Postdoc: applied machine learning in Microbiology
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Postdoc: Scientific computing and applied machine learning
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Postdoc modeling the interactions of soil microbiome and metabolites
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projects
Changes to the maize microbiome when atoxogenic Aspergillus flavus is introduced
Introducing atoxogenic A. flavus to maize reduces aflotoxin production in part by altering the microbiome composition
Developing probabilistic graphical models and analysis software to integrate multi-omics data
Using a tomato/Ralstonia model to develop methods to integrate microbiome and exo-metabolite data into predictive Bayesian networks
Understanding the role of the Microbiome in post harvest apple quality
Controlling the microbiome of the apple after harvest improves quality and reduces food waste
Understanding the effect of winter cover crops on the maize microbiome
Winter cover crops have the potential to increase soil quality but the effect on the microbiome in not known
Determining the sex of chicks in the egg
The rapid detection of the sex of chickens in the egg will enable a major advance in animal welfare and reduction in the cost of producing eggs
Discovering fire ant viruses
Viruses found in the native range of the red imported fire ant have the potential to control the pest
ITSxpress: a CLI and QIIME 2 plugin for ITS trimming
Trim Internally Transcribed Spacers (ITS) with quality scores for sequence variant analysis
Viruses to control the Electric ant Wasmannia auropunctata
Viruses found in the native range of the red Electric ant have the potential to control the pest
Under-the-Radar Dengue Virus Infections in Natural Populations of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
Viral metagenomics was used to assemble a complete Dengue virus genome from mosquitos in Florida in the absence of any human index case
Antibiotic resistance in pre-antibiotic era poultry
Sequencing the microbiomes of poultry from the 1800’s to quantify innate antibiotic resistance
The Microbiome of low-methane rice cultivars
We are working to understand how rice varieties that produce less methane interact with the methanogenic archaea and bacteria in the soil
Salmonella typing and phenotypic prediction from genomes and metagenomes using population genomics and machine learning
Autoencoders and ML for Salmonella detection
Development of Tn-Seq Methods for the Functional Characterization of Bacteria
Enabling the rapid identification of all lethal gene pairs in an organism