James Scott

the Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit in 2002 as an Assistant Professor, was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2009, and promoted to Full Professor in 2016. His research bridges occupational health and environmental health, focusing on the measurement of exposure to health-relevant biological contaminants, particularly bioaerosols. Dr. Scott’s laboratory uses conventional microbiological methods in addition to molecular diagnostics including high throughput next-generation DNA sequencing to investigate the composition and dynamics of a variety of microbial communities. Currently, Dr. Scott is the Director of the UAMH Centre for Global Microfungal Biodiversity, a world-class repository of medically and environmentally important, living microfungi. Dr. Scott co-led SyMBIOTA, a large, CIHR-funded, multi-disciplinary team studying the impact of perinatal environmental exposures on early-life atopy and asthma in response to perturbations of the developing human gut microbiome. He also led an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation project on microbiology of the built environment.