In synthetic biology, engineering principles are applied to system design. The development
of synthetic microbial consortia represents the intersection of synthetic biology and …

Civilian and military nuclear programs of several nations over more than 70 years have led
to significant quantities of heterogenous solid, organic, and aqueous radioactive wastes …

Over the last century, leaps in technology for imaging, sampling, detection, high-throughput
sequencing, and-omics analyses have revolutionized microbial ecology to enable rapid …

Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like plasmids, viruses, and transposable elements can
provide fitness benefits to their hosts for survival in the presence of environmental stressors …

An Assessment of Short-Term Milestones in EBRC’s 2019 Roadmap, Engineering Biology
Page 1 An Assessment of Short-Term Milestones in EBRC’s 2019 Roadmap, Engineering …

Apart from chemical pollutants and organic matter, wastewater treatment plants release
microorganisms into the environment. This microbial community, released into the …

The development, progression, and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is
determined by interlinked human, animal, and environmental drivers, posing severe risks to …

The development of single-cell whole genome sequencing (scWGS) to study bacteria has
grown in recent years. Microbiologists are particularly interested in this approach to access …

Anthropogenic nitrate contamination is a serious problem in many natural environments.
Nitrate removal by microbial action is dependent on molybdenum (Mo), which is required by …

Dr. Hazen believes strongly in team science therefore he has made and extra effort to
support purchases of major equipment at UTK and ORNL and to share all his major …