Dwayne Elias

Dwayne Elias and his company Elias Consulting, LLC serve as a Science Adviser and Scientific Consultant to Assured Bio Labs. Dr. Elias has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and earned his B.Sc. (honors) in Biology at the University of Winnipeg and his M.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Manitoba, both in Canada, as well as his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Oklahoma. He also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, an Associate Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and is an Academic Editor at the journal PLoS One and an Associate Editor at the Frontiers in Microbiology Journal. He was formerly an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, a Research Professor at the University of Missouri, and a Senior Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was the team leader for Biogeochemical Transformations at Critical Interfaces and the ORNL lead scientist for discovering bacterial networks in ecosystems. Particular research focus areas are the bioremediation of toxic metals and radionuclides, the genetics, physiology, metabolism and biochemistry of environmental bacterial isolates, and the construction of model microbial communities for mechanistic studies and industrially relevant applications.