PNNL

Trinidad Alfaro is an earth scientist in the Biogeochemical Transformation team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. She has been a research scientist at PNNL since 2016. Alfaro’s work has focused on microbial ecology, plant-microbe-soil interactions, host-pathogen interactions, molecular biology, and synthetic biology. 
 
She has participated in multiple projects, including a National Science Foundation-funded project to study nutrient addition effects on microbial communities in grassland sites, a U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award project for research focused on plant-microbe-soil interactions in growing bioenergy crops, and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project to develop a high-throughput screening platform for pathogen identification. 

• Microbial Ecology 

• Synthetic Biology 

• Host-Microbe Interactions 

• Molecular Biology 

• BS in Biology, Washington State University

2019 

Starke, R., N. Jehmlich, T. Alfaro, A. Dohnalkova, P. Capek, S. L. Bell, and K. S. Hofmockel. 2019. "Incomplete cell disruption of resistant microbes." Scientific Reports 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42188-9.