Dr. Claudia Gunsch
PreMiEr Center Director, Duke University
Who are PreMiEr?
Executive Committee
Joseph Graves, Jr.
Project Co-Lead, N.C. A&T
Jennifer Kuzma
Associate Director, NC State
Dr. Joe Brown
Professor , UNC – Chapel Hill
Anthony Fodor
Associate Director, UNC Charlotte
Evaluation & Assessment
Catherine Amelink
External Evaluation, Amelink Consulting and Educational Research, LLC
Engineering Workforce Development
Innovation Ecosystem
Anurodh Tripathi
ILO and Co-Director, Strategic Partnerships, Duke University
Research Thrust 1 – “Measurement”
Rachel Noble
Co-Director, Strategic Partnerships, UNC Chapel Hill
RT1-Noble
Engineering Healthier Indoor Microbiomes Through Precision Microbial Profiling, Targeted Interventions, and Industry Engagement
Sherlynette Pérez Castro
RT1 Post-Doc Researcher, UNC – Chapel Hill
Research Thrust 2 – “Modification”
Nathan Crook
Thrust Co-Lead, Project Lead, NCSU
Ophelia Venturelli
Thrust Co-Lead, Project Lead, Duke University
RT2-Thomas
Physico-chemical Approaches for Engineering the Microbiome of the Built Environment
Carla Calderon
RT2 External Collaborator, Healthcare & Life Sci. Industry Group
Sergio Gutiérrez Cortez
RT2 External Collaborator, University Mayor de San Andrés
RT2-Venturelli
Microbiome Engineering: Probiotic Treatments
RT2-Crook
Microbiome engineering: Synthetic Biology
RT2-Delgado Vela
Viruses for Microbiome Engineering in the Built Environment
Research Thrust 3 – “Modeling”
Anthony Fodor
Associate Director, UNC Charlotte
RT3-Turpin
Spatiotemporal Models: Maintaining a healthy microbiome through bioaerosol distribution of an engineered microbial cocktail and feedback control through rapid detection of fungal pathogens
Sherlynette Pérez Castro
RT1 Post-Doc Researcher, UNC – Chapel Hill
RT3-Lott
Microbial Risk Assessment to Inform Engineering Solutions in the Built Environment
Dr. Deverick Anderson
MD, Professor of Medicine, Duke University Hospitals
Research Cores
Anthony Fodor
Associate Director, UNC Charlotte
Jennifer Kuzma
Associate Director, NC State
DA-4
Fodor Data Analytics in Microbiome Engineering
SEI-4
Kuzma Societal and Ethical Implications of Microbiome Engineering
Test Beds
Dr. Deverick Anderson
MD, Professor of Medicine, Duke University Hospitals
