Prof. Janet Jansson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Janet Jansson received her PhD in microbial ecology from Michigan State University. She spent 20 years in Sweden, starting with her postdoctoral research at Stockholm University. She was a Professor of Microbiology at Södertörn University College and then Professor (Chair) of Environmental Microbiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences... read more(SLU). She was also Vice Dean of the Faculty for Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences at SLU. She is currently a Senior Staff Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Chief Editor of The ISME Journal. Her expertise is in the area of molecular microbial ecology and “omics” approaches with a focus on soil, marine sediment and the human gut environments.