Janet K. Jansson

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Janet Jansson is Chief Scientist for Biology in the Biological Sciences Division and a Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Jansson has more than 30 years of experience in microbial ecology. Jansson earned an M.S.in Soil Microbiology at Colorado State University (1983) and a Ph.D.in Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University (1988). Jansson was a researcher in Sweden for 20 years from 1988 - 2007 and was Professor, Chair of Environmental Microbiology, and Vice Dean at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences prior to moving back to the United States in 2007. Before coming to PNNL in June 2014, Jansson was a senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2007-2014). From 2012-2014, Jansson was an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Jansson's specific expertise is in the use of molecular approaches (omics) to study complex microbial communities, such as those residing in soil, sediments, and the human gut. Jansson is currently studying the impact of climate change on microbial communities in prairie and arctic ecosystems, including a focus on the impact of warming on permafrost soil microbiomes and drought on grassland soils. Her research also focuses on the human microbiome, including the impacts of diet, host genetics and inflammatory bowel disease on gut microbial functions. Currently she is coordinating Microbiomes in Transition (MinT), a PNNL research initiative that uses a multidisciplinary approach to determine how microbiomes are impacted by perturbations, such as climate change, and how the human microbiome is impacted by environmental exposures. Jansson is also Co-Principle Investigator for the Science Focus Area (SFA): Phenotypic Response of the Soil Microbiome to Environmental Perturbations. Jansson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Washington State Academy of Science. She has authored more than 160 publications, and is the editor of two books on molecular microbial ecology and a textbook on soil microbiology. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Society for Microbiology (ISME) and on numerous advisory panels, including the National Academy of Science Committee on Science Breakthroughs for Food and Agriculture by 2030.

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environmental microbiology
molecular microbial ecology
Human microbiome
Projects (2)

The Phenotypic Response of the Soil Microbiome to Environmental Perturbations Project (Soil Microbiome SFA) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a Genomic Sciences Program Science Focus Area (SFA) Project operating under the Environmental Microbiome Science Research Area. The Soil Microbiome...

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Last updated on 2023-02-23T19:37:46+00:00 by LN Anderson PerCon SFA Project Publication Experimental Data Catalog The Persistence Control of Engineered Functions in Complex Soil Microbiomes Project (PerCon SFA) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ) is a Genomic Sciences Program...

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Publications (8)
Dr William C Nelson
Lindsey N. Anderson
Janet K. Jansson
Ruonan Wu
Jason McDermott
Sheryl L. Bell
Ari Jumpponen
Sarah J. Fansler
Kimberly J. Tyrrell
Yuliya Farris
Kirsten Hofmockel
Arunima Bhattacharjee
Lindsey N. Anderson
Andrea Porras-Alfaro
Ari Jumpponen
Kirsten Hofmockel
Janet K. Jansson
Dr Christopher R Anderton
Dr William C Nelson
Ryan McClure
Dan Naylor
Yuliya Farris
Michelle R Davison
Sarah J. Fansler
Kirsten Hofmockel
Janet K. Jansson
Elias Zegeye
Colin Brislawn
Yuliya Farris
Sarah J. Fansler
Kirsten Hofmockel
Janet K. Jansson
Aaron Wright
Emily Graham
Dan Naylor
Ryan McClure
Hans Bernstein
Ruonan Wu
Michelle R Davison
Dr William C Nelson
Emily Graham
Sarah J. Fansler
Yuliya Farris
Jason McDermott
Kirsten Hofmockel
Janet K. Jansson
Sheryl L. Bell
Arunima Bhattacharjee
Lindsey N. Anderson
Dr William C Nelson
Ari Jumpponen
Janet K. Jansson
Kirsten Hofmockel
Dr Christopher R Anderton
Dan Naylor
Sarah J. Fansler
Dr William C Nelson
Kirsten Hofmockel
Janet K. Jansson
Ryan McClure