Our Team

We are engineers and scientists studying environmental issues, focusing on microbial communities in natural and engineered systems.

Our Goal

Using multi-omics, advanced analytical chemistry, and fundamentals of microbial ecology and environmental engineering, we strive to harness the environmental microbiome for a sustainable food-energy-water nexus.

Interested in environmental microbiome research?
We are recruiting!
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Lab Members

Yaqi You (faculty page)
​Assistant Professor
Environmental Resources Eng, SUNY ESF
BioInspired Institute, Syracuse Univ.
NYS COE in Healthy Water Solutions
​NYS COE in Environmental and Energy Systems Innovations

Hanyue Yang
PhD candidate
Topic: Rhizosphere Manipulation
MS Jiangnan Univ.
ACS ENVR Graduate Awardee
Google Scholar

Amina M Mughal
PhD student
​Topic: Great Lakes Microbiomes
MS COMSATS Univ.
Sussman Fellowship
​​​​ResearchGate | LinkedIn

Maryam Saffari
PhD candidate
Topic: PFAS in Compost
MS Univ. Tehran
Co-advised with Douglas Daley

Molly Brown
Env. Resources Eng.
SUNY ESF
Honors Thesis 2024

Hayden Bregg
Biotech
SUNY ESF
Internship 2023

Dr. Jerald Ibal
Postdoc at ISU
Topic: NSF-funded AIMS Project
Co-advised with Dr. Ken Aho
Google Scholar

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Michael Braus
NSF-funded AIMS Project 2021

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Graduate

Mohamad J Hashemi 
MS Env. Resources Eng.
​SUNY ESF 2024
GSEU Professional Dev. Award
​(next: PhD at Syracuse U)
LinkedIn

Patricia Kerner
MS Microbiology
​ISU 2021
FEMS Congress Atten. Grant
​(next: Project Manager at ISU)
​Google Scholar

Undergraduate

Yuxuan Duan
Bioprocess Eng.
BUCT-SUNY ESF
Independent Research 2024
(next: MSE at UIUC)

Yuyin Gui
Bioprocess Eng.
BUCT-SUNY ESF
Independent Research 2023-24
(next: MS at Imperial College London)

Nancy Do
Biotech
SUNY ESF
Research Assistant 2023

Bussaba Sermsukwandee
Env. Science
SUNY ESF​
​Internship in Env. Science 2023

Olivia Abry
Biotech
SUNY ESF​
Research Assistant 2023

Roxanne Li
Env. Biology
SUNY ESF​
Independent Research 2023

E Schwartz
Env. Resources Eng.
SUNY ESF​ 2022
​(next: PhD at Univ. Michigan)

Arya Legg
Biology
ISU
AIMS project trainee 2022

Diego Beltran
Chemistry
SUNY ESF​
​Research Assistant 2022

Adrian Boylan
Env. Resources Eng.
SUNY ESF​
​Career Fellowship 2022

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Rebecca Brien
Env. Resources Eng.
​SUNY ESF
Research Assistant 2021​

Ashley Margrey
Biology
​Binghamton Univ.
Syracuse BioInspired REU 2021

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Jourdyn-Evonne Lee 
​Env. Resources Eng.
​SUNY ESF
Honors Thesis 2021
NSF GRFP Awardee
​LinkedIn

Wyatt Saxton
Microbiology
ISU
STEM Undergrad 2020
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​Susannah Mann
Health Science
ISU
Research Assistant 2020

​Tristin Here-Wheeler
Microbiology/French
ISU
STEM Undergrad &
​Research Assistant 2019
(next: MS at Washington State U)

Lauren Long
Microbiology
ISU
Career Path Intern &
​Research Assistant 2019​

Present Karmacharva
Mathematics & Statistics
​ISU
Career Path Intern 2019