Patrick Schloss, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is also affiliated with the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, the Michigan Institute for Data Science and the Rogel Cancer Center. His research focuses on the role of the gut microbiota in diseases including Clostridiodes difficile infection and colorectal cancer. He is also active in the development and validation of tools for analyzing microbiome sequence data. Schloss has been a member of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) since 2016 and fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science since 2022. 

Schloss received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University and did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Jo Handelsman at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Schloss was on faculty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. 

Schloss is the Chair of the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) Journals Committee and a member of the Publications Committee and the Council on Microbial Sciences. He has also served as an editor and editorial board member for Applied and Environmental Microbiology. He served as a reviewer for many of ASM’s journals. His research has been published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, mBio, mSphere, mSystems, Microbiology Resource Announcements, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews and Microbiology Spectrum. Schloss received the 2019 ASM Award for Service and the inaugural 2019 Microbiome Data Prize.