Faculty

Research Areas: Bacterial genetics and genomics, metagenomics, microbiology of human-built urban environments Research Description: Dr. Gibas is the founder of the North Carolina Urban Microbiome Project. With researchers in the Departments of Biology, Geography and Earth Science, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, we are studying the impact of treated wastewater release on urban streams in […]

Dr. Denis Jacob Machado (click here to learn how to pronounce his name) is an assistant professor in bioinformatics at UNC Charlotte’s Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics (BiG), starting on Aug. 15, 2022. He was one of the first hires of the Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER). Dr. Jacob […]

In 2012, Daniel Janies joined the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as The Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics. Dr. Janies received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Florida in 1995. Dr. Janies worked as […]

Dr. Abigail Leavitt LaBella received her Ph.D from the University Program in Genetics and Genomics at Duke University in 2017. After defending her thesis on deep-sea population genomics, Dr. LaBella worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. Antonis Rokas at Vanderbilt University. During this time Dr. LaBella led research projects that leveraged […]

Richard Lambert, Ph.D., Ed.S. is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership in the Cato College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Director of the Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, and Editor of the Journal of Applied Educational Policy Research. His research interests include formative assessment for young children, […]

Dr. Shaoyu Li joined the faculty of Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 2014. Dr. Li’s main research area is statistical genetics and genomics. Her current research focus is developing statistical and computational methodologies for bulk tissue gene expression deconvolution to quantify the proportion of cellular compositional effects in the total variation of bulk gene […]

Dr. Elaine Luo is a microbial oceanographer with training from University of Toronto, University of Hawaii, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Microbial engines drive biogeochemical cycles that influence habitability of life on Earth, yet ocean microbes, and in particular viruses, remain the most abundant yet understudied life-forms on our planet. Her lab uses short- […]

Chris Maher leads the Research Computing team at The University of North Carolina Charlotte. They provide high performance computing and analytics capability and expertise to the University research and teaching community. He began his career as an experimental physicist at Carnegie Mellon University, where he completed his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees. His thesis experiment […]

Kevin McGoff is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. After completing his Ph.D., he completed a postdoc in Mathematics at Duke University. Dr. […]

Mariya Munir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). She earned her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (2008) and a master’s degree (2010) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University. She then joined Virginia Tech as a Postdoctoral Researcher studying the effect of humidity on influenza […]