James A. Scott is Full Professor the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit and the Director of the UAMH Centre for Global Microfungal Biodiversity, a world-class repository of medically and environmentally important, living microfungi, Toronto (Canada). Dr. Scott also coleads SyMBIOTA, a large, CIHR-funded, multidisciplinary team studying the impact of perinatal environmental exposures on early life atopy and asthma in response to perturbations of the developing human gut microbiome. He also leads an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation project on microbiology of the built environment. His research bridges occupational health and environmental health, focusing on the measurement of exposure to health-relevant biological contaminants, particularly, bioaerosols.