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Ecology

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Scientists in the Ecology Department lead development of new technologies to dissect the microbial diversity of complex ecosystems. Their internationally recognized expertise include scale-aware ecology systems, advanced imaging, physiological diversity of microbes, and plant-microbe interactions.

Core Capabilities

Our six core capabilities are:

  • Advanced Infrared Microscopy and Manipulation
  • Interactions and Feedbacks between Different Trophic Levels of an Ecosystem
  • Environmental Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry
  • Environmental Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • Predictive Multiscale Models and Model Data Integration
  • Soil Biogeochemical Cycling

Advanced Infrared Microscopy and Manipulation

Schematic genome-centric quantitative microbiome analysis

Environmental Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics

Romy Chakraborty in her research lab

Environmental Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry

Interactions and Feedbacks between Different Trophic Levels of an Ecosystem

Predictive Multiscale Models and Model Data Integration

Soil Biogeochemical Cycling

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Mechanical Faculty Scientific Engineer

Phone: 510-643-5969
[email protected]

Nicholas J. Bouskill

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7490
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Eoin Brodie

Microbiologist, Senior Scientist

Deputy Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division

Lead, Environmental & Biological Systems Sciences Program Domain

Phone: 510-486-6584
Fax: 510-486-7152
[email protected]

Stephany Chacon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6899
Fax: 510-486-4773
[email protected]

Romy Chakraborty

Ecology Department Head

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4091
Fax: 510-486-7152
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Hee Jung Cho

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Phone: 510-859-6034
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Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6180
[email protected]

Mary Firestone

Mary Firestone

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-642-3677
[email protected]

Headshot photo of Sara Gushgari-Doyle

Sara Gushgari-Doyle

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4091
[email protected]

Zhao Hao

Principal Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-7335
[email protected]

Kolby Jeremiah Jardine

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-495-8231
[email protected]

Ulas Karaoz

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4118
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Gianna Marschmann

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6899
[email protected]

Hannah Naughton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6584
[email protected]

Michelle Newcomer

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7057
[email protected]

Noele Norris

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6584
[email protected]

Nigel William Trevelyan Quinn

HydroEcological Engineering Advanced Decision Support (HEADS)

Group Leader, Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7056
Fax: 510-486-7152
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Whendee L. Silver

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-486-6223
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Patrick Oliver Sorensen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4390
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Neslihan Tas

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5538
Fax: 510-486-7152
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Shi Wang

Principal Research Associate

Phone: 510-495-2657
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Xiaoqin Wu

Project Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7515
Fax: 510-486-5686
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Mon Oo Yee

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4091
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Jizhong Zhou

Visiting Faculty

Phone: 510-486-6223
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Department Contacts

Romy Chakraborty
Staff Scientist

Bridgette Leigh Hall
Administrative Assistant III

News & Events

EESA Postdoc Places at Lab’s 2020 SLAM Competition

October 2, 2020

The 2% of microbes on Earth that we can grow in the lab have led to groundbreaking discoveries, such as the vaccine for malaria, but can you imagine what the other 98% could give us? Sara Gushgari-Doyle’s approach to cultivating difficult-to-culture microorganisms tied her for second place in the Sept. 17 finals of Berkeley Lab’s…

Berkeley Lab Isotope Geochemists Study Isotopic Fractionation by Plants

August 3, 2018

            Isotope geochemists at Berkeley Lab are the first to establish the degree of Potassium (K) isotopic fractionation by plants. Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have a different number of neutrons. Scientists have just in the past decade begun studying for key nutrient elements (other than C,…

Three Amazing EESA Women Take Home Women @ The Lab Awards

July 12, 2018

     Romy Chakraborty, Ecology Department Head Sixteen women at various stages of their careers were honored for making extraordinary contributions to STEM and Operations here at Berkeley Lab at the third Women @ The Lab event on Monday, July 9. Hundreds of friends and colleagues cheered as each woman approached the stage in the B50…

CESD research scientist Kolby Jardine Selected as Early Career Research Program Recipient

June 21, 2018

Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division scientist Kolby Jardine is one of six researchers selected by the Department of Energy to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program this year. The program, now in its ninth year, is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the…

EESA Women Honored as Women @ The Lab Awardees

June 1, 2018

        Three oustanding EESA women were chosen for the 2018 Women @ The Lab awards – Lisa Kelly (EESA Operations Manager); Shi Wang (Principal Research Associate); and Romy Chakraborty (Ecology Department Head). They join an esteemed cohort of 16 women awardees across Berkeley Lab who have made and continue to make significant…

Living Large: Exploration of Diverse Bacteria Signals Big Advance for Gene Function Prediction

This article was authored by Massie S. Ballon for the Joint Genome Institute. Ecology Department Head Romy Chakraborty participated in this research on behalf of EESA.   In the air, beneath the ocean’s surface, and on land, microbes are the minute but mighty forces regulating much of the planet’s biogeochemical cycles. To better understand their…

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