Darcy McRose

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. Her research focuses on using secondary metabolites to understand microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and plant-microbe interactions. Her work integrates bacterial physiology, genetics, and genomics with mass spectrometry and geochemical measurements to study microbially-mediated chemical and biological transformations in soils and sediments. McRose's research explores how these transformations affect nutrient cycling and plant growth.

Darcy L. McRose is an Assistant Professor at MIT, specializing in Microbiology, Microbial Interactions, and Secondary Metabolites. Her research explores the ecological and biochemical roles of microbial interactions, particularly focusing on the production and function of secondary metabolites in diverse environments. Her work includes studies on redox-active antibiotics, siderophores, and nitrogen fixation mechanisms, with an emphasis on their impact on nutrient cycling and microbial community dynamics. McRose's research also investigates the chemical ecology of metabolites such as coumarins and phenazines, their influence on iron acquisition, and their broader implications for environmental and agricultural systems.