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= Kelly Wrighton = Kelly Wrighton currently is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, in the Department of Soil and Crop Science. She received multiple research grants amounting to ~$12 million, including several prestigious early career awards from the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation , and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Her notable research includes the discovery of a new bacteria, Candidatus Frackibacter, that inhabits the sealed off underground wells that are often the target of fracking. Her work continues to highlight the importance of understanding microbiological processes and how they interact with abiotic factors on a global scale.

Early Life and Education
Kelly Wrighton was born in San Diego, CA and lived there until she moved to Bainbridge Island, WA. In June 2001 she received a BS in Microbiology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, before obtaining a Masters at the same institution, receiving a MS in Biological Science (Ecology) in June 2005. Wrighton completed her PhD in Microbiology from the University of California Berkeley in April 2010.

Career and Research
While studying for her Masters, Wrighton worked as a Research and Development Microbiologist at Hardy Diagnostics from 2001 – 2003. She also worked as a Clinical Microbiologist for XOMA Pharmaceuticals (2002 – 2003) and a Research Microbiologist, Chevron Corporation (2003 – 2005) before she completed her Masters and began to study for her PhD. She continued her work at the University of California Berkeley as a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science (2010 – 2013). Wrighton then moved to Ohio and worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Ohio State University (2013 – 2018). She now works in at the Colorado State University in the Department of Soil and Crop Science.

Awards and Honors
In 2009, Wrighton was a Millis-Colwell Postgraduate Grant recipient, awarded by the American Society of Microbiology. Between 2009-2011 she was a Full Academic Graduate Fellowship, with the Chang-Lin Tien Scholars Award at the University of California Berkeley, Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity. She has been awarded the title of Outstanding Instructor, at the University of California Berkeley, in recognition of exceptional achievements for Microbial Ecology. In 2016 she was also given the Ohio State University Faculty Mentor Award. Wrighton was elected co-Director of the OSU Infectious Disease Institute in the Microbial communities program for fostering interdisciplinary microbiome research on OSU campus while she worked there, before moving to Colorado. In India (2015) and Germany (2016), she has twice been named a Fellow of Kavli Frontiers of Science, sponsored by US National Academy of Sciences and the Kavli Foundation.

Publications
Since 2008, Wrighton has published nearly 50 peer reviewed articles, with a more complete list available on her Google scholar page.


 * Engelbrektson, A., Kunin, V., Wrighton, K. et al. Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness. ISME J 4, 642–647 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2009.153
 * Wrighton, Kelly & Thomas, Brian & Sharon, Itai & Miller, Christopher & Castelle, Cindy & Verberkmoes, Nathan & Wilkins, Michael & Hettich, Robert & Lipton, Mary & Williams, Kenneth & Long, Philip & Banfield, Jillian. (2012). Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla. Science (New York, N.Y.). 337. 1661-5. 10.1126/science.1224041.
 * Castelle, Cindy & Wrighton, Kelly & Thomas, Brian & Hug, Laura & Brown, Christopher & Wilkins, Michael & Frischkorn, Kyle & Tringe, Susannah & Singh, Andrea & Markillie, Lye Meng & Taylor, Ronald & Williams, Kenneth & Banfield, Jillian. (2015). Genomic Expansion of Domain Archaea Highlights Roles for Organisms from New Phyla in Anaerobic Carbon Cycling. Current Biology. 25. 10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.014.
 * Wrighton, K., Agbo, P., Warnecke, F. et al. A novel ecological role of the Firmicutes identified in thermophilic microbial fuel cells. ISME J 2, 1146–1156 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2008.48
 * Hug, L.A., Castelle, C.J., Wrighton, K.C. et al. Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling. Microbiome 1, 22 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/2049-2618-1-22