OUR WORK
Research Interests
Research in the Techtmann Lab focuses on understanding the rules that govern microbial community behavior to inform engineering of microbial communities to improve environmental quality and sustainable food and biomaterial production. We use computational, lab and field methods to address questions related to environmental biotechnology and industrial microbiology
Microbial Conversion of Plastic to Food
This project is focused on Engineering natural and synthetic microbial consorita for convert plastic waste into protein powder
Natural Microbial Communities as Biosensors
This project uses machine learning to identify microbial biomarkers in natural microbial communities that predict environmental phenomena
Bioremediation
This project seeks to study how natural microbial communities response to oil release and can be used in bioremediation
Adaptations to Extreme Environments
This theme focuses on the study of microbial adaptations to extreme environents such as life in ice or dessication