Principal Investigator
Arizona State University
Heather Bean, PhD, is an Associate Profession in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. She is a bioanalytical chemist working to characterize the metabolomes of human, animal, plant, and environmental microbial consortia with two main purposes: 1) understanding how volatile and semi-volatile metabolites mediate microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions, and 2) development of novel biomarkers and diagnostics, with an emphasis on breath tests.