Rachel Poretsky, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Rachel Poretsky, Ph.D., hails from the great urban microbial hotspot of Brooklyn, NY and is currently an associate professor in biological sciences with a courtesy appointment in
civil, materials and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, located in another major urban microbial hotspot.
Poretsky obtained a B.S. in biology from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the University of Georgia. She was a postdoc at Caltech in geology and planetary sciences and at Georgia Tech in environmental engineering. She serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals including ASM’s Applied and Environmental Microbiology and mSystems.
Poretsky’s research interests are in microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, bacterial diversity and community structure and interactions in natural environments. She has done pioneering work looking at genes and gene expression of microbial communities in the ocean, freshwater lakes and rivers and wastewater.
civil, materials and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, located in another major urban microbial hotspot.
Poretsky obtained a B.S. in biology from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the University of Georgia. She was a postdoc at Caltech in geology and planetary sciences and at Georgia Tech in environmental engineering. She serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals including ASM’s Applied and Environmental Microbiology and mSystems.
Poretsky’s research interests are in microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, bacterial diversity and community structure and interactions in natural environments. She has done pioneering work looking at genes and gene expression of microbial communities in the ocean, freshwater lakes and rivers and wastewater.