Annie Otwell

Postdoctoral Fellow

401 Terry Ave N
206-732-2102

I am working on the ENIGMA project, where we study subsurface microbial communities and the environmental processes that they carry out. I am currently studying nitrate-reducing bacteria isolated from a contaminated field site. My goal is to create synthetic consortia composed of the isolates in order to address environmentally relevant questions about nitrate reduction and microbial ecology. While I am still getting started, future goals include developing assays to probe resilience as well as studying microbial assembly and specialization in evolved nitrate-reducing communities. 

Publications

Day, Jessica A., Christian Diener, Anne E. Otwell, Kourtney E. Tams, Brad Bebout, Angela M. Detweiler, Michael D. Lee, et al. “Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa) Productivity Influenced by Microbial Inocula under Nitrogen-Limited Conditions in Aquaponics.” PloS One 16, no. 2 (2021): e0247534. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247534. Cite