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Dr. Mikayla Borton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and co-leads the Microbial Ecosystems Lab at Colorado State University. Dr. Borton’s research focuses on understanding microbiomes through multi-omics and systems biology approaches, with applications spanning host, environmental, and climate-related challenges. Her work brings together microbial ecology, genomics, and data science to better understand how microbial communities shape the world around us. She will discuss her work on the Genome Resolved Open Watersheds (Rivers) project and multi-omics approaches for understanding climate change impacts in wetlands.