Martha Carlin is an award-winning systems thinker whose microbiome-research company, The BioCollective, is changing how we understand the link between the environment, our food and water systems, and illness. A sought-after speaker, she is the 2018 NetExplo Major Digital Talent in biotech; the APC Microbiome Hero for World Microbiome Day; 2016 White House Microbiome Initiative Speaker, and an advisor for the Microbiota Vault, among others. She believes that a siloed approach to health research misses important microbial connections, and built her company to connect the dots between human and ecological systems.