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, N.C. A&T
Dr. Jennifer Kuzma
Associate Director, NCSU
Dr. Anthony Fodor
Associate Director, UNC Charlotte
Evaluation & Assessment
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
Parent Project: Deployable Measurement Technologies, Microbial Validation and Industry Partnering
RT1-Noble-Wei
Project Sub Aim: Deployable Dual-Mode Sensing for Actionable Microbial Monitoring in Built Environments
RT1-Noble-Bergin
Project Sub Aim: Selective Biosensing Platform for Continuous Monitoring of Viable Indoor Fungi
RT1-Noble-Dannemiller
Project Sub Aim: FUMES: Fungal Universal mVOCs for Environmental Surveillance
RT1-Noble-Chen
Project Sub Aim: MoBEScout: Autonomous Multi-Modal Microbiome Sensing and Sampling
RT1-Noble-Brown
Project Sub Aim: Rapid Molecular Diagnostics / AIAS and Quantitative Microbial Detection
Research Thrust 2 – “Modification”
Nathan Crook
RT2 Thrust Co-Lead, NCSU
Ophelia Venturelli
RT2 Thrust Co-Lead, Duke University
RT2-Venturelli
Parent Project: Microbiome Engineering: Biotic Innoculants
RT2-Venturelli-Gilbert
Project Sub Aim: Implementation of Biotic Inoculants in Hospital Environment
RT2-Venturelli-Weisner / Gilbertson
Project Sub Aim: Hydrogel Encapsulation and Delivery
RT2-Crook
Parent Project: Microbiome engineering: Synthetic Biology
RT2-Crook-Rawls
Project Sub Aim: Built-Environment Fitness Determinants
RT2-Crook-Thomas
Project Sub Aim: Directed Evolution of Bacillus Strains for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Suppression
RT2-Delgado Vela / Rockey
Parent Project: Viruses for Microbiome Engineering in the Built Environment
RT2-Delgado Vela / Rockey – Jeffers Francis
Project Sub Aim: Phi-XR: Engineering Host-Range-Expanded E. coli Phage Cocktails for Precision Biocontrol
Research Thrust 3 – “Modeling”
Anthony Fodor
RT3 Lead, UNC Charlotte
RT3-Turpin
Parent Project: Spatiotemporal Models: Maintaining a healthy microbiome through bioaerosol distribution of an engineered microbial cocktail and feedback control through rapid detection of fungal pathogens
RT3-Lott
Parent Project: Microbial Risk Assessment to Inform Engineering Solutions in the Built Environment
RT3- Data Analytics
Parent Project: Data Analytics
RT3- Data Analytics – Fodor
Project Sub Aim: AI
RT3- Data Analytics – Callahan
Project Sub Aim: Bioinformatics
Research Core
Jennifer Kuzma
SEI Core Lead, NCSU
SEI-Kuzma
Parent Project: Societal and Ethical Implications of Microbiome Engineering
Test Beds
Barbara Turpin
Co-Lead: Environmental Chambers & PreMiEr Home @ Duke , UNC – Chapel Hill
Glenn Morrison
Co-Lead: Environmental Chambers & PreMiEr Home @ Duke , UNC – Chapel Hill
Ophelia Venturelli
Co-Lead: Modular P-Trap Bioreactors, Duke University
Affiliates
Antoinette Maldonado-Devincci
PreMiEr Affiliate, N.C. A&T
