Dr Stefan J. Green is currently the director of the Genomics and Microbiome Core Facility (GMCF) at Rush University Medical Center (RUMC). In addition, he holds an appointment as an associate professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases at RUMC. Previously, he was director of the Genome Research Core (GRC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2010 to 2020. He is a microbial ecologist and molecular biologist with an extensive career in cultivation-independent analysis of complex microbial communities. He has a PhD in Microbiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004), an MS in Environmental Engineering (Northwestern University, 1998), and a BA from Wesleyan University (1995). In addition to expertise in sample processing and microbiome data analysis, he has examined the role of microbial dysbiosis in experimental animal models and in human studies. He has also previously worked on the ecology of microorganisms in extreme environments.