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Darcy McRose is the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. McRose’s research group focuses on understanding microbially-mediated chemical and biological transformations in soils and sediments, with particular emphasis on their effects on nutrient cycling and plant growth. The research incorporates various methodologies, including bacterial physiology, genetics, genomics, mass spectrometry, and geochemical measurements, to explore how secondary metabolites produced by microbes influence their environment. McRose has contributed significantly to the field of Earth System Science and has been recognized as a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. His innovative work, which has been published in prestigious journals including Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigates iron acquisition by Pseudomonas species and the effects of redox-active antibiotics on phosphorus bioavailability.