University of Georgia
Using plant and microbial synthetic biology to study and design plant form/function, engineer plant microbiomes, and aid biological carbon sequestration.
Marine microbial ecology and evolution; oceanography, biogeochemistry, astrobiology, bioinformatics, big data analytics in environmental science
Invertebrate microbiomes; nematode ecology and evolution; benthic and deep-sea habitats; using environmental DNA for biomonitoring
Dr Peach’s research interests are in the field of vector ecology, with a focus on behavioral and sensory ecology. He is primarily focused on how arthropod vectors, such as mosquitoes, find and interact with resources such as the hosts they bite, the flowers they nectar-feed from (and pollinate) or the breeding sites they use, and the implications of this information for mosquito management and pathogen transmission as well as understanding species and disease distributions..
Plant evolutionary ecology; population dynamics; responses to climate change
Coastal ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; ecosystem resilience to and recovery from disturbances; global change; carbon cycling
Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, marine systems, water quality and public health, disease ecology
Characterization of surface-active organics in marine and anthropogenic aerosol
particles and their effects on particle growth and water uptake
Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.
Biogeochemical nutrient cycling in porous media and aquatic systems, reactive transport modeling of microbially mediated processes.
