Delaney Beals

Delaney has been a graduate student at the University of Utah since 2019. Her research in the Puri lab has focused on bridging the gap between how researchers study methane-oxidizing  bacteria in the lab to how these carbon-cycling microbes behave in the natural environment and among the greater soil community. This work has involved developing a lab-based model ecosystem to study these bacteria in a spatially resolved context, measuring the methane flux and microbial communities directly from a local Utah forest field site, and using bioinformatics to find the (meta)genomic and (meta)transcriptomic basis for interspecies interactions.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/delaney-beals
GitHub: https://github.com/delaney-beals