Executive Committee

Claudia Gunsch
Center Director
Duke University

Joe Brown
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Joseph Graves, Jr.
Associate Director
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

Jennifer Kuzma
Associate Director
North Carolina State University

Anthony Fodor
Associate Director
University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Evaluation & Assessment

Glenda Kelly
Director, Evaluation & Assessment
Duke

Catherine Amelink
External Evaluation
Amelink Consulting & Educational Research
Engineering Workforce Development

Joshua Granek
Education Lead
Duke

Megan Lott
REU Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Megan Hill
Research Scientist
Duke
Innovation Ecosystem

Anurodh Tripathi
ILO and Co-Director, Strategic Partnerships
Duke

Rachel Noble
Co-Director, Strategic Partnerships
UNC – Chapel Hill
Research Thrust 1 – “Measurement”

Rachel Noble
RT1 Thrust Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill
(RT1-Noble): Engineering Healthier Indoor Microbiomes Through Precision Microbial Profiling, Targeted Interventions, and Industry Engagement

Rachel Noble
RT1 Project Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Barbara Turpin
RT1 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Glenn Morrison
RT1 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Boyuan Chen
RT1 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Liesl Jeffers-Francis
RT1 Faculty Researcher
NC A&T

Kristen Landreville
RT1 Senior Researcher
NCSU

Megan Lott
RT1 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Benjamin Callahan
RT1 Faculty Researcher
NCSU

Denene Blackwood
RT1 Professional Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Sherlynette Pérez Castro
RT1 Post-Doc Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Jorden Rabasco
RT1 Student Researcher
NC State

Ugonna Morikwe
RT1 Student Researcher
N.C. A&T

Rachel Bangle
RT1 Faculty Researcher
NC A&T

Megan Hill
Research Scientist
Duke
Research Thrust 2 – “Modification”

Nathan Crook
RT2 Thrust Co-Lead
NCSU

Ophelia Venturelli
RT2 Thrust Co-Lead
Duke
(RT2-Thomas): Physico-chemical Approaches for Engineering the Microbiome of the Built Environment

Misty Thomas
RT2 Project Lead
NC A&T

Claudia Gunsch
RT2 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Joseph Graves, Jr.
RT2 Project Co-Lead
NC A&T

Anthony Fodor
RT2 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Charlotte

Joe Brown
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Rachel Bangle
RT2 Faculty Researcher
NC A&T

Megan Lott
RT2 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Nathan Bossa
RT2 Senior Researcher
Duke

Mark Wiesner
RT2 Faculty Researcher
Duke

A-Andrew Jones
RT2 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Kayla Fericy
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Kobi Talma
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Will Stiffler
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Georgie Sawyer
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Karl Linden
RT2 External Collaborator
University of Colorado Boulder

Carla Calderon
RT2 External Collaborator
Healthcare & Life Sci. Industry Group

Sergio Gutiérrez Cortez
RT2 External Collaborator
Universidad Mayor de San Andrés

Megan Hill
Research Scientist
Duke

Lindsay Saber
RT2 Student Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Caroline Butler
RT2 Student Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill
(RT2-Venturelli): Microbiome Engineering: Probiotic Treatments

Ophelia Venturelli
RT2 Project Lead
Duke

Claudia Gunsch
RT2 Project Co-Lead
Duke

Lingchong You
RT2 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Conrad Moss
RT2 Researcher
Duke

Aaron Yip
RT2 Post-Doc Researcher
Duke

Job Grant
RT2 Researcher
Duke

Will Stiffler
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Neil Gottel
RT2 Post-Doc Researcher
Duke

David Singleton
RT2 Senior Researcher
Duke

John Zhou
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke
(RT2-Crook): Microbiome engineering: Synthetic Biology

Nathan Crook
RT2 Project Lead
NCSU

Qiaochu Li
RT2 Student Researcher
NCSU

John Rawls
RT2 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Robert Newman
RT2 Faculty Researcher
NC A&T

Jessica McCann
RT2 Researcher
Duke

Akinwunmi Afuape
RT2 Student Researcher
NC A&T
(RT2-Delgado Vela): Viruses for Microbiome Engineering in the Built Environment

Jeseth Delgado Vela
RT2 Project Lead
Duke

Nicole Rockey
RT2 Project Co-Lead
Duke

Robert Newman
RT2 Faculty Researcher
NC A&T

Kevin Garcia
RT2 Faculty Researcher
NCSU

Crissy Massimino
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Zachariah Broemmel
RT2 Researcher
Duke

Madison Pinckney
RT2 Student Researcher
NC A&T

Gavin Duffy
RT2 Student Researcher
Duke

Brianna Jamison
RT2 Student Researcher
NCSU

Akinwunmi Afuape
RT2 Student Researcher
NC A&T
Research Thrust 3 – “Modeling”

Anthony Fodor
RT3 Thrust Lead
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

Barbara Turpin
RT3 Project Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Glenn Morrison
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Rachel Noble
RT3 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Nicole Rockey
RT3 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Claudia Gunsch
RT3 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Boyuan Chen
RT3 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Joe Brown
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Joshua Granek
RT3 Faculty Researcher
Duke

David Singleton
RT3 Senior Researcher
Duke

Denene Blackwood
RT3 Professional Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Sherlynette Pérez Castro
RT3 Post-Doc Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Gavin Duffy
RT3 Student Researcher
Duke

John Zhou
RT3 Student Researcher
Duke

Clara Eichler
RT3 Post-Doc Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Evelyn Liu
RT3 Student Researcher
Duke

Emily Nortmann
RT3 Student Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Qing Dai
RT3 Student Researcher
Duke
(RT3-Lott): Microbial Risk Assessment to Inform Engineering Solutions in the Built Environment

Megan Lott
RT3 Project Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Joe Brown
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Glenn Morrison
RT3 Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Deverick Anderson
RT3 Faculty Researcher
Duke

Linden Neal
RT3 Student Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill
Research Cores

Anthony Fodor
DA Core Lead
UNC – Charlotte

Jennifer Kuzma
SEI Core Lead
NCSU
(DA-4): Fodor Data Analytics in Microbiome Engineering

Anthony Fodor
DA Project Lead
UNC – Charlotte

Benjamin Callahan
DA Faculty Researcher
NCSU

Jorden Rabasco
DA Student Researcher
NC State

Ivory Blakley
DA Researcher
UNC – Charlotte

Megan Hill
Research Scientist
Duke
(SEI-4): Kuzma Societal and Ethical Implications of Microbiome Engineering

Jennifer Kuzma
SEI Project Lead
NCSU

Joseph Graves Jr.
SEI Faculty Researcher
NC A&T

Joe Brown
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Kristen Landreville
SEI Senior Researcher
NCSU

Christopher Cummings
SEI Senior Researcher
NCSU

Jean Cadigan
SEI Faculty Researcher
UNC – Chapel Hill

Nourou Barry
SEI Senior Researcher
NCSU

Wendy Roa
SEI Researcher
NCSU
Test Beds

Deverick Anderson
Test Beds Co-Lead
Duke

Barbara Turpin
Test Beds Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill

Joe Brown
RT3 Project Co-Lead
UNC – Chapel Hill
Affiliates

Jason Arnold
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Holly Leddy
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Lawrence David
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Sandra Clinton
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Charlotte

Ibrahim Mohedas
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Rodolphe Barrangou
PreMiEr Affiliate
NCSU

Dongyang Deng
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Zhicheng Ji
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Sarah Rhea
PreMiEr Affiliate
NCSU

Marc Deshusses
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Cynthia Gibas
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Charlotte

Sonia Grego
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Scott Harrison
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Jian Han
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Joseph Heitman
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Jessilyn Dunn
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Jefferson Ellinger
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Charlotte

Michael Fisher
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Chapel Hill

He Fu
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Kun Lu
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Chapel Hill

Jenora Waterman
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Rytas Vilgalys
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Brian Stoner
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Antoinette Maldonado-Devincci
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Shengmin Sang
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Jacelyn Rice-Boayue
PreMiEr Affiliate
NCSU

Amy Ngyuen
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Chapel Hill

Kristen Rhinehardt
PreMiEr Affiliate
NC A&T

Jill Stewart
PreMiEr Affiliate
Univ. S. Carolina

Daniel Reker
PreMiEr Affiliate
Duke

Jessica Schlueter
PreMiEr Affiliate
UNC – Charlotte
Administrative Staff

Erica Phillips
Executive Administrative Director
Duke

Stelian Igescu
Financial Director
Duke

Kim Odom
Administrative Coordinator
Duke

Alana Stull
Digital Media Strategist
Duke