COMBE people

Cory Cleveland, Research Scientist
clevelac@colorado.edu
lab homepage
INSTAAR

Shelley Copley, Professor
Molecular evolution of enzymes and metabolic pathways;
mechanistic enzymology; biodegradation of xenobiotic pollutants;
bioinformatics

shelley.copley@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
and CIRES

Noah Fierer, Assistant Professor
Activity and structure of soil microbial communities and how
they relate to terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem
dynamics

fierer@lifesci.ucsb.edu
lab homepage
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CIRES

Ryan Gill, Assistant Professor
Evolutionary and inverse metabolic engineering, genomics

rtg@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Robert Guralnick, Assistant Professor
Invertebrate evolutionary biology, biodiversity informatics

robert.guralnick@colorado.edu
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CU Museum

Rob Knight, Assistant Professor
rob@spot.colorado.edu
lab homepage
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Andrew Martin, Associate Professor
Evolutionary biology and phylogenetic analysis

andrew.martin-1@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Diane McKnight, Professor
Aquatic ecology, aquatic chemistry

diane.mcknight@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies and INSTAAR

Russell Monson, Professor
Plant physiological ecology; forest-atmosphere carbon,
water and energy fluxes; regional carbon cycling; influence of
ecosystem processes on atmospheric chemistry

russell.monson@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CIRES

Jason Neff, Assistant Professor
Biogeochemistry

neffjc@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Geology and Environmental Studies

Diana Nemergut, Assistant Professor
microbial evolution and ecology, horizontal gene transfer

nemergut@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Environmental Studies and INSTAAR

Norman Pace, Professor
Ribozyme biochemistry; molecular ecology of extreme ecosystems

nrpace@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Steve Schmidt, Professor
Microbial ecology, plant/microbe interactions, biogeochemistry,
mycorrhizae

schmidts@spot.colorado.edu
lab homepage
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

JoAnn Silverstein, Professor and Chair
Biological treatment of contaminants in water and wastes,
water recycling

joanne.silverstein@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Environmental Engineering

Richard Smith, Project Chief Scientist
Microbial ecology of aqueous environments, C and N biogeochemistry,
cycling and flux of trace gases, bioremediation, anerobic microbiology

rlsmith@usgs.gov
lab homepage
USGS

Alexis Templeton, Assistant Professor
Low temperature geochemistry, geomicrobiology
environmental biogeochemistry

alexis.templeton@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Geology

Alan Townsend, Associate Professor
Terrestrial biogeochemistry, regional to global C and N cycles,
tropical ecosystems and global change

alan.townsend@colorado.edu
lab homepage
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and INSTAAR

Mark Williams, Professor
Alpine Environments, Hydrology, Biogeochemistry

markw@snobear.colorado.edu
lab homepage
Geography and INSTAAR

PEOPLE