Research 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

Using a tomato/Ralstonia model to develop methods to integrate microbiome and exo-metabolite data into predictive Bayesian networks

Controlling the microbiome of the apple after harvest improves quality and reduces food waste

Winter cover crops have the potential to increase soil quality but the effect on the microbiome in not known

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

Viruses found in the native range of the red imported fire ant have the potential to control the pest

Trim Internally Transcribed Spacers (ITS) with quality scores for sequence variant analysis

Viruses found in the native range of the red Electric ant have the potential to control the pest

Viral metagenomics was used to assemble a complete Dengue virus genome from mosquitos in Florida in the absence of any human index case

Sequencing the microbiomes of poultry from the 1800’s to quantify innate antibiotic resistance

We are working to understand how rice varieties that produce less methane interact with the methanogenic archaea and bacteria in the soil

Autoencoders and ML for Salmonella detection

Enabling the rapid identification of all lethal gene pairs in an organism