Alyse Hawley

Biography

Dr. Alyse Hawley is a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Bioengineering group where she is exploring microbial metabolic interactions. Using engineered microbial communities of algal bioreactors and down stream degrading communities and comparing them to natural environments, will aid in the understanding of the fundamental principles underlying microbial interactions. Understanding these fundamental principles of key importance as we look to engineer microbial communities for bio-products, bioenergy and carbon capture.

Dr. Hawley completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of British Columbia with Dr. Steven Hallam where she used multi-omic approaches to study microbial communities along redox gradients in marine oxygen minimum zones. Exploring energy metabolisms and interactions between microbial groups including dark matter phyla has led her to look more closely at what shapes metabolic interactions within microbial communities.