Funded Researchers
Darcy McRose
- Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Darcy McRose is the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Earth systems at Stanford and a PhD in geosciences at Princeton University. She completed postdoctoral training at Caltech in the divisions of biology and biological engineering and geological and planetary sciences. Her laboratory focuses on metabolites made by microorganisms and plants and draws on techniques from molecular biology, chemistry, and geosciences to study these molecules and their effects on soil fertility and plant growth.
J-WAFS-funded projects
- Food security in Africa through microbiome engineering
- Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus