Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the Joint BioEnergy Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users. Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model laboratory ecosystems (EcoFABs).
Trent Northen is the Metabolomics Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.
