The Atkinson lab was selected to lead one of the inaugural projects under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI.

Our project, MOBILE-PATH, will develop AI-driven approaches to understand and predict horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities.

Out group is working with an outstanding multidisciplinary team of Princeton Engineering colleague Jürgen Hackl who runs the Complex Infrastructure Systems lab and our partner Ilenne Del Valle Kessra at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance AI-driven microbiome engineering and accelerate scientific discovery.