About
Aggrego Data provides access and understanding of modern microbial ecology to agricultural producers and biologically driven systems around the world. We help understand and optimize biological systems in order to promote a more sustainable world.
Our vision revolves around engineering diverse microbial populations to help close nutrient cycles and lessen the environmental footprint of humanity. Microorganisms are the true drivers of global biological systems. By studying their populations, a system’s parameters, and outcomes — biological systems can be optimized for desired outcomes.
Leadership
Aggrego Data consists of a team of environmental engineers and scientists from the Colorado School of Mines with expertise in environmental microbiology, organic waste management, wastewater treatment and reuse, onsite treatment, soil health, and education and outreach.
Dr. Zackary Jones was raised in California where he attended the University of California San Diego graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. He worked for two years at a molecular diagnostic company, Gen-Probe (now Hologic), before attending the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Jones earned a Masters and subsequently a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering where he primarily investigated microbial communities of engineered biological systems for fundamental understanding and system optimization. He continued his academic career at the University New South Wales studying abiotic electron transfer to anaerobic bacteria to store energy as natural gas. Dr. Jones has since pivoted towards agricultural microbiology, leading a grant to study the microbial ecology of vermicompost resulting in the founding Aggrego Data in an effort to reduce agricultural pollution and boost farm resiliency. He currently resides in Fort Collins, CO with his wife and two children.I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.
Zackary Jones, PhD
Founder and Co-Owner
Dr. Christopher Trivedi is a Colorado native and completed his undergraduate education at the University of Denver graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He was Clinical Technologist at National Jewish Health before starting his graduate career at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Trivedi earned his Masters and PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering studying sulfur-based metabolism driving microbial community proliferation in a glacial spring system in the Canadian High Arctic. After graduating, Dr. Trivedi Postdoctoral Scholar GFZ-Potsdam University in Berlin, Germany where he continued to develop his bioinformatic expertise studying Arctic microbiomes. He co-owns Aggrego data with Dr. Jones and he currently resides outside of Berlin.
Christopher Trivedi, PhD
Co-Owner and COO
Dr. Gary Vanzin attended the University of Connecticut where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Neurobiology and subsequently earned his masters in Genetics and PhD in Biochemistry from the same university. He continued his academic journey as a Postdoctoral Research AssociateThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory where he focused on discovering genes in the beta-proteobacterium Rubrivivax gelatinosus involved in biohydrogen production from carbon monoxide and water. Dr. Vanzin then spent 9 years at Luca Technologies starting as a lead scientist and eventually promoted to Director of Research. He returned to academia as an Assistant Research Professor at the Colorado School of Mines writing grants and working on a variety of projects including wastewater treatment, mine waste remediation, and geobiological phenomena in the deep subsurface. He has recently started consulting for Aggrego Data taking on report automation and special projects including human pathogen detection in soils.
Gary Vanzin, PhD
Big Data and Automation Consultant
Dr. David Vuono attended the University of Vermont where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. He worked as a Research Technician at Avitar, assisting in the operation of a full scale anaerobic digester. He began his graduate career at the Colorado School of Mines, where he studied the microbial ecology of activated sludge from an on-site treatment plant. His thesis revolved around data-driven optimization of full-scale advanced wastewater treatment processes. Dr. Vuono continued his academic career as a post doctoral researcher at the University of Washington and the Desert Research Institute where he studied bacterial nitrogen cycling, developed a fungicide from waste biomass and compost, and contributed to the development of a real-time Microbial Anaerobic Growth Intervalometer (MAGI). Dr. Vuono returned to the Colorado School of Mines as a Research Assistant Professor continuing his wastewater research and assisting with a variety of related projects. He has recently joined Aggrego Data as a waste water treatment consultant, bioinformatician, and remote sensing expert.
David Vuono, PhD
Engineering and Microbome Consultant