Trevor Charles
About
Professor Charles is a microbiologist with expertise in bacterial molecular genetics. His research group studies pathogen surveillance using genomic methods, upcycling of food waste to biodegradable bioplastics, and plant beneficial bacteria. The group also develops methods for functional metagenomics using alternate surrogate hosts, and employs these methods to isolate novel genes with interesting functions from microbial community metagenomic libraries.
Professor Charles is co-founder of the companies Metagenom Bio Life Science, Healthy Hydroponics InnoTech, and Earth Microbial, as we well as founder and executive director of the LiftOff Black Entrepreneurship Program.
Current research emphasis is on functional metagenomics, bioplastics, pathogen surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, and plant microbiome.