Dr. Claudia Gunsch
PreMiEr Center Director, Duke University
Who are PreMiEr?
Executive Committee
Dr. Joe Brown
Deputy Director, UNC – Chapel Hill
Dr. Joseph Graves Jr.
Associate Director, NC A&T
Jennifer Kuzma
Associate Director, NC State
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
RT1 Lead, UNC – Chapel Hill
RT1-Noble
Engineering Healthier Indoor Microbiomes Through Precision Microbial Profiling, Targeted Interventions, and Industry Engagement
Sherlynette Pérez Castro
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
RT3 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
Sherlynette Pérez Castro
Post-Doc Researcher, UNC – Chapel Hill
RT3-Lott
Microbial Risk Assessment to Inform Engineering Solutions in the Built Environment
Research Cores
Jennifer Kuzma
SEI Core Lead, NCSU
Anthony Fodor
DA Core Lead, UNC Charlotte
DA-4
Fodor Data Analytics in Microbiome Engineering
SEI-4
Kuzma Societal and Ethical Implications of Microbiome Engineering
