Susannah Tringe

Susannah Tringe serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Merced and Division Director of Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research examines microbial roles in wetland carbon cycling and plant-microbiome interactions. She earned a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford University.

Leadership roles:

• Director of RESTOR-C Center for soil carbon restoration
• Former Deputy of User Programs at DOE Joint Genome Institute

Key findings include:

• Mechanisms of methane emission in rising sea-level wetlands
• Carbon sequestration processes in natural landscapes
• Genomic strategies for climate change mitigation

Research employs:

• High-throughput sequencing technologies
• Ecosystem-scale metagenomic analysis
• Field validation across Bay Area wetland zones