Rob Knight

Dr. Rob Knight is a professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Computer Science in the BioFrontiers at the University of Colorado Boulder, and also has an appointment in the Computational Biosciences Program at the University of Colorado Denver. He is an AAAS Fellow and HHMI Early Career Scientist. He is also the cofounder and scientific lead of Biota, Inc., cofounder of American Gut, and co-PI of the Earth Microbiome Project.

Brendan Buhler is an award-winning science writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, California, and Sierra Magazine. His story on Rob Knight’s work was selected for the 2012 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing.