OMBI includes a diverse group of investigative labororaties and affiliate research organizations. Please see the list of list of investigators below for more information.

Dr. Massimo Bionaz

Assistant Professor, Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences

• Animal-microbe intereactions
• Mastitis

Dr. Jeff Chang

Associate Professor, Department of Botant & Plant Pathology
http://changlab.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

• Plant-microbe interactions

Dr. Frederick (Rick) Colwell

Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Department of Microbiology
http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/colwell/

• Microbial ecology
• Subsurface microbiology
• Geomicrobiology
• Biogeochemistry

Dr. Byron Crump

Professor,College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~crumpb/
http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/crump/

• Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems
• Microbial biogeography
• Microbiome science
• Metagenomics
• Organic matter and nutrient cycling
• Microbial food web structure

Dr. David Dallas

Assistant Professor,Department of Nutrition
dallaslab.org
http://health.oregonstate.edu/people/david-dallas

• Milk protein digestion in infants
• Bioactive peptides
• Antimicrobial peptides
• Immunomodulatory peptides
• Mass spectrometry

Dr. Benjamin Dalziel

Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Department of Mathematics
http://ib.oregonstate.edu/faculty/benjamda/Benjamin-Dalziel

• Ecology and evolution of infectious disease
• Host population structure as a driver of microbial biogeography

Dr. Theo Dreher

Professor, Department of Microbiology
http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/content/dr-theo-dreher

• Cyanobacteria; Genomics; Metagenomics; Genome evolution; Cyanobactertial bloom dynamics

Dr. Stephen Giovannoni

Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology
http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/dr-stephen-giovannoni

• Ecology, evolution and systems biology of Pelagibacterales (SAR11) marine bacteria
• New technologies for culturing bacteria
• The marine carbon cycle

Dr. Adrian F. Gombart

Associate Professor, Linus Pauling Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/faculty-staff/adrian-gombart

• Vitamin D
• Xanthohumol
• Immunity
• Obesity
• Metabolic syndrome
• Microbiota

Dr. Niklaus Grunwald

Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
http://grunwaldlab.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

• Plant pathology; plant microbiomes; plant pathogen genomics end evolution

Dr. David Hendrix

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
hendrixlab.cgrb.oregonstate.edu
http://hendrixlab.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/images/hendrix.jpg

• Genomics
• Bioinformatics
• Gene Regulation
• Deep Learning

Dr. Emily Ho

Professor, School of Biological & Population Health Sciences, Linus Pauling Institute
http://health.oregonstate.edu/people/emily-ho

• Diet
• Nutrition & microbiome interactions
• Natural products
• Micronutrients

Dr. Duo Jiang

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
http://stat.oregonstate.edu/people/jiang-duo

• Statistical genetics and genomics
• Graphical models and network analysis
• 16S
• RNA-seq and metabolomic data analytics
• Mixed-effects models

Dr. Yuan Jiang

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
http://stat.oregonstate.edu/content/jiang-yuan

• Data integration
• Variable selection
• Network analysis
• Statistical genetics
• GWAS
• RNA-seq
• Metagenomics

Dr. Dipankar Koley

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
http://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/koleylab

• Microbial metabolism at high spatial and temporal resolution
• Bacterial metabolic interactions
• Bacteria-host and Bacteria-environment intereactions

Dr. David Koslicki

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
http://koslicki.math.oregonstate.edu/

• Methods development in genomics and metagenomics

Dr. Sandra Loesgen

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Adjuct faculty to Pharmacy
http://loesgenlab.org

• Microbial Chemistry
• Natural Products
• Metabolomics
• Drug Discovery
• Glycan Recognition

Dr. Ryan Mueller

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/dr-ryan-mueller

• Horizontal gene transfer
• Nutrient cycling
• Environmental succession
• Niche adaptation
• Physiological adaptation to environmental change

Dr. David Myrold

Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Science
http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/content/david-myrold

• Soil microbial ecology
• Soil nitrogen cycling

Dr. Stephen Ramsey

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
http://lab.saramsey.org

• Cancer
• Atherosclerosis
• Gene regulation

Dr. Thomas Sharpton

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Department of Statistics
http://lab.sharpton.org
http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/content/thomas-sharpton

• Gut Microbiome
• Metagenomics
• Host-Microbiome Interactions
• Ecology
• Evolution

Dr. Fred Stevens

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Linus Pauling Institute
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/faculty-staff/fred-stevens

• Polyphenols
• Microbial metabolites
• Metabolomics

Dr. Robert Tanguay

Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
http://tanguaylab.com/

• Zebrafish
• Molecular Toxicology
• High Throughput Screening
• Development
• Green Chemistry
• Tissue Regeneration

Dr. Andrew Thurber

Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Dept. of Microbiology
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/colddarkbenthos/people/
http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/thurber/
http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/dr-andrew-thurber

• Marine ecosystem ecology with a focus on integrating biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, and animal systems to understand ecosystem function

Dr. Susan Tilton

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
https://emt.oregonstate.edu/users/susan-tilton

• Molecular toxicology
• Genomics
• Carcinogenesis

Dr. Brett Tyler

Professor, Department of Plant Pathology
Director, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing
http://bpp.oregonstate.edu/tyler/

• Systems biology of plant disease
• Oomycetes
• Forest microbiomes
• Biodiversity

Dr. Rebecca Vega-Thurber

Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
http://vegathurberlab.oregonstate.edu/

• Microorganismal interaction with and regulation of marine ecosystems
• Tropical reef and deep-sea microbiomes