Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, a staff scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), is among the 63 inductees of the 2026 cohort of new American Academy of Microbiology Fellows, an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology. Fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced the field.

Eloe-Fadrosh’s research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. She has led JGI’s metagenome program since 2017 and the DOE’s National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) since 2019. The latter, a DOE multi-lab initiative, aims to support microbiome data exploration through a data discovery portal that promotes open science and shared ownership.

“Academy Fellows are leaders in their field whose work influences the direction of scientific discovery and its role in society,” said Vanessa Sperandio, Chair of the Academy Governors. “Election to the Academy is a significant professional milestone, and I am delighted to welcome Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh as a member of the 2026 cohort.”

Eloe-Fadrosh received a 2020 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Career Scientific Achievement. She is a board member of the Genomic Standards Consortium and a steering committee member of the International Metagenomics and Microbiome Standards Alliance (2020-current).