Dr. Vishnivetskaya is a Research Associate III in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB) at the University of Tennessee (UT). Dr. Vishnivetskaya holds a Ph.D. (2003) in Biochemistry from Russian Academy of Sciences and a M.Sc. (1990) in Biology with major in Microbiology from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her interests lay in uncovering microbial community structure and biodiversity of various extreme environments including deep subsurface permafrost, tundra soils, soils and sediments from polluted sites, hot springs, and animal/human microbiome. In her research Dr. Vishnivetskaya is applying a variety of classical microbiological and high-throughput techniques, such as quantitative real time PCR, microarrays, hybridization, next generation sequencing, single cell genomics, metagenomics, metaproteomics, metatranscriptomics.