Labs

Rittmann Lab

The Rittmann Lab focuses on using environmental biotechnology from the perspective of managing microbial communities that provide services to society. This is achieved through cross-disciplinary and team-based research in the areas of engineering, science, sustainability, and biological design.

Torres Lab

The Torres Lab focuses on microbiological technologies that provide energy or high value chemicals to society. The goal of the lab is to make use of microorganisms and their complex enzymatic machinery to carry out reactions that are difficult or impossible through any other known chemical route. The main research topics are microbial electrochemistry, fermentations, and photosynthetic biofuel production.

Delgado Lab

Anca Delgado’s research focuses on soil and water microbial processes that sequester, recycle, and transform carbon and chlorine compounds for (i) contaminant removal, (ii) minimization of harmful chemicals in food production, (iii) improvement of soil quality, and (iv) biofuel precursor production.

Cadillo-Quiroz Lab

The Cadillo-Quiroz lab studies the ecology of carbon rich ecosystems, the interactions and activity of microbes in response to or as potential ecosystem drivers, and thegenomics and evolution of microbes to track their mechanisms of change and key innovations. The lab also focuses on novel groups of methane-producing Archaea and interacting bacteria in anaerobic, high carbon-content natural or human engineered environments.