News
December 2020: Caylon was just awarded a College of Ag Competitive Grant. Congratulations Caylon!
November 2020: Laura successfully passed her Comprehensive Exam. Congratulations Laura!
November 2020: New paper with Thomas Bell in FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Not sure whether Google Scholar will find this helpful or confusing!
November 2020: Laura has a new paper in Environmental Microbiology. Congratulations Laura!
November 2020: New episode of the Genome Insider Podcast with Alison Takemura is focused on our DG1 project with Mary Ann Bruns' lab. See here!
September 2020: Rondy's paper has been published in Biogeochemistry. Congratulations Rondy!
August 2020: Hiring for a research tech position, split 50:50 with Emily Davenport's lab. See the posting here.
August 2020: Great video about Caylon's work from the Huck Institutes!
June 2020: Jeremy was just awarded a Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellowship through 2023. Congratulations Jeremy!
May 2020: We have received funding from the USDA AFRI Foundational Program to assess the importance of generalist microorganisms in agricultural systems.
April 2020: We are thrilled to welcome Sarah Richards as a new Ph.D. student in our group for Fall 2020! Sarah will be entering through the Ecology program, and comes to us from Indigo Ag and the University of New Hampshire.
April 2020: Laura just received a P.E.O. Scholar Award. Congratulations Laura!
April 2020: Ryan just accepted a Ph.D. position in Estelle Couradeau's lab at Penn State. Congratulations Ryan!
March 2020: Caylon was just awarded a prestigious NSF GRFP award. Congratulations Caylon!
March 2020: We are really excited to announce the arrival of our first postdoc, William King. William comes to us from the University of Technology Sydney, and brings experience in molecular biology, biotechnology, and microbiology. Welcome William!
February 2020: At our lab party, we came up with some more useful words for the science community. When your paper is stuck in an endless cycle of revisions, you are in papergatory. And when a talk promises to be very exciting, but actually has little to do with what you care about, it was powerpointless.
February 2020: Helen Senerchia has just joined our lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Helen!
February 2020: Laura's article on microbiome transfer and our white paper from the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes Symposium were both among the 10 most downloaded articles in Phytobiomes for 2019.
January 2020: Jeremy passed the qualifying exam for the Bioinformatics and Genomics Program. Congratulations Jeremy!
December 2019: Congratulations to Jeremy for winning the PSU Student Leader Scholarship!
December 2019: Congratulations to Caylon and Miranda for being selected for Sloan Research Fellowships!
December 2019: Enjoyed speaking at PASA's Advanced Farmer Gathering. Great discussions about the role of soil microorganisms in agriculture.
November 2019: Congratulations Ryan! Ryan's article on sustained soil-to-soil contact for microbiome transfer is online now.
November 2019: Our Organic Transitions project is featured in Penn State News, alongside two other new projects from the College.
November 2019: Great 'Article-in-a-Day' retreat at Shaver's Creek! Thanks to Suzanne Fleishman and Sarah Isbell for contributing to this lab project.
October 2019: Collaborative paper with labs of Kevin Hockett, John Pecchia, and Carolee Bull, led by Samuel Martins, has been published in Phytobiomes. This was one of the first class projects in PPEM 497 (now PPEM 440)!
October 2019: In response to the Extension article put out earlier this year by Laura and me, I was interviewed for USDA radio. Thanks to Rod Bain and the production team!
October 2019: Happy to announce that a collaborative article on approaches to understanding N-cycling in ag systems, led by Mara Cloutier and Mary Ann Bruns, has been published!
October 2019: Congratulations to Laura! Laura passed her candidacy exam for the Plant Pathology graduate program.
October 2019: Happy to announce that we have had our project funded by the USDA Organic Transitions Program! This project is in collaboration with Jason Kaye and Anna Busch at Penn State, and involves on-farm work with farmers across Pennsylvania and New York, integration in the long-term Cover Crop Cocktail project at Penn State, and collaboration with PASA's Soil Health Benchmark Study.
October 2019: Very pleased to announce that William King (University of Technology Sydney) will be joining us as our first postdoctoral associate in early 2020. Welcome William!
October 2019: Congratulations to Laura! Laura won the Microbiome Center Networking Event poster competition and earned travel money for microbiome-related professional development. Caylon also presented a great poster, and Miranda gave an expert speed talk!
September 2019: Laura and I gave a talk titled 'Can we enhance microbial contributions to regenerative ag systems?' at the PASA-sponsored event Regenerative Grazing from the Ground Up: https://pasafarming.org/event/regenerative-grazing-from-the-ground-up/. Our first in-barn presentation!
August 2019: Laura has started distributing microbial cages developed by her and Emily Grandinette to begin an on-farm microbial conditioning project (see Photos).
August 2019: Enjoyed participating in Science on Tap with Kevin Hockett! Thanks to Jeremy Sutherland and other members of Penn State's Science Policy Society for organizing the event.
July 2019: We are happy to welcome back Emily Grandinette! Emily will be working on a DARPA-funded project led by Dr. Howard Salis.
July 2019: Recent graduate and NSF PRFB awardee Rondy Malik gave an invited talk at UMass-Boston on success, titled "What makes you tick? Recalibrating the road to success". Congratulations Rondy!
July 2019: Our white paper from the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes symposium is currently the most read paper in Phytobiomes!
June 2019: Had a great time presenting at USDA APHIS with Dr. Maria Jimenez-Gasco, Laura Bautista, Emma Rosenthal, Caylon, and Miranda. Thanks to Drs. Martha Malapi-Wight and Gloria Abad for hosting, and for everyone who facilitated our tour of the PPQ facility!
May 2019: A response to a response to our recent Trends in Biotechnology article here. Thank you to Drs. Beth Gugino and John Carlson for contributing their expertise!
May 2019: Congratulations Rondy! Rondy successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation defense, and will be moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kansas.
May 2019: Nice article about Laura in Penn State News.
May 2019: Congratulations Ryan! Ryan was awarded the Ambassador Award by the College of Agricultural Sciences. This award is given to the staff member in the College who best exemplifies service to others, both internal and external to the unit, and exhibits a high level of professionalism, uses university resources for effective problem solving, and practices the philosophy of continuous quality improvement.
April 2019: A new term from last night's lab party: When you are ready to perform a clean assay in the molecular lab and there is soil all over your bench, you are the victim of "A Dirtsturbance".
April 2019: Congratulations Miranda! Miranda successfully passed her written and oral candidacy exams for the Ecology program.
April 2019: Congratulations Laura! Laura is now an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and will be using her award to explore the conditions that promote or inhibit microbial establishment in soils.
April 2019: Congratulations Caylon! Caylon successfully passed his written and oral candidacy exams for the Ecology program.
April 2019: Congratulations Rondy! Rondy was awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship (PRFB), which he will be making use of at the University of Kansas in the lab of Dr. James Bever.
March 2019: Excited that our white paper from the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes meeting has been published. Got to work with many great co-authors! https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PBIOMES-01-19-0006-W
February 2019: Congratulations to the mBiome cohort for a successful first outreach event! https://mbiome.weebly.com/outreach.html
January 2019: Welcome to two new co-advised graduate students! Rondy Malik (co-advised with Dr. David Eissenstat) and Jeremy Sutherland (co-advised with Dr. Jesse Lasky) recently joined our group.
January 2019: Welcome to undergraduate Patrick Brown! Patrick will be assisting with graduate student projects in our lab.
December 2018: Thoroughly enjoyed the International Phytobiomes Conference in Montpellier, France. Laura Kaminsky gave a great poster presentation. Thanks to the organizing committee for selecting me to speak!
November 2018: From a strange brainstorming session in a February lab meeting, to article acceptance in November: Congratulations to Laura, Ryan, Rondy, and our collaborator Dr. Kevin Hockett on having our Opinion article accepted in Trends in Biotechnology! Thanks also to Idalys and Emily for creative contributions to the brainstorming session.
October 2018: Congratulations to Laura Kaminsky! She was awarded funds from the College of Agriculture Tag Along Fund to present at the International Phytobiomes Conference in December.
October 2018: Congratulations to Caylon Yates! Caylon won the Lightning Talk competition at the 3rd Annual Microbiome Center Networking Event. He was awarded $250 for travel to a conference.
September 2018: Thanks to Sarah Hind and the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois for inviting me to speak, and for hosting me during my visit. A great experience meeting everyone!
August 2018: Congratulations to Laura Kaminsky for having her first career article accepted in Phytobiomes!
July 2018: Welcome to our 3rd grad student Caylon! Now time to herd some soil microbes.
July 2018: We are super excited to officially welcome Miranda to the lab! Finally starting to feel like a team around here.
May 2018: Very grateful for support from the Joan Luerssen Faculty Enhancement Fund and PSU College of Agriculture, which will allow me to attend the International Phytobiomes Conference in December.
May 2018: Enjoyed meeting with faculty and students from the Department of Microbiology at Cornell. Thanks to Andrew St. James and FoMS for the invitation!
March 2018: Lots of fun leading today's Microbiome Center workshop, "Working in R for Microbiome Analysis". We had a packed house!
March 2018: Laura placed first in her category for the poster competition at the Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo. Congratulations Laura!
March 2018: We are excited to welcome Miranda DePriest, who will be joining us as an Ecology Ph.D. student in Fall 2018. She will be supported in part by fellowships from the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Huck Institutes. Congratulations Miranda!
February 2018: We are excited to welcome Caylon Yates, who will be joining us as an Ecology Ph.D. student in Fall 2018. He will be supported in part by fellowships from the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Huck Institutes. Congratulations Caylon!
February 2018: New lab word for crud inside a centrifuge is 'centrifudge'.
February 2018: Congratulations to Laura, who was awarded a PPEM Library Sequence Data Generation and Curation Grant!
February 2018: Excited to collaborate with PD Dr. Michela Centinari and Co-PD Dr. Dave Eissenstat on a new USDA AFRI Foundational grant, allowing us to look at how grapevine root-associated microbiomes are shaped by depth and root architecture.
January 2018: Feature story on the Schreyer Institute website about PPEM497:
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/feature
January 2018: Welcome to our new undergraduate, Brandon Wilt!
January 2018: Welcome to Laura Kaminsky, as she gets started in the lab!
December 2017: Emily Grandinette was selected for a 2018 summer internship at Monsanto in San Diego, CA. Congratulations Emily!
November 2017: We are recruiting 5 Ph.D. fellows to a new graduate cohort (mBiome), funded by Penn State's College of Agriculture, to look at microbiome manipulation across the agricultural chain. Contact me, or see here for details about positions:
https://www.huck.psu.edu/content/research/microbiome-center/student-resources
November 2017: Ryan presented his work on microbiome transfer at the Allegheny Branch of ASM meeting at Juniata College.
September 2017: I am giving a keynote talk on phytobiomes at the International Phytotechnologies Conference in Montreal.
September 2017: PPEM 497 students have started working on microbiome-based projects to assist the research of Dr. Michela Centinari (vineyard root-associated microbiomes), Dr. Kevin Hockett, and Dr. Carolee Bull (microbiomes associated with mushroom cap disease).
July 2017: Received course enhancement funds from Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, which will allow us to work on actual faculty research projects in PPEM 497.
May 2017: Along with Dr. Mary Ann Bruns, awarded metatranscriptomic sequencing funds through the Small-scale Microbial/Metagenome Program at the Joint Genome Institute to look at interactions between a soil surface consortium and underlying soil microbiomes.
April 2017: Manuscript comparing soil microbiome transfer methods, authored by Mia Howard, myself, and Dr. Jenny Kao-Kniffin, accepted in FEMS Microbiology Letters.
March 2017: Laura Kaminsky has just agreed to a position as the lab's first graduate student. Laura was also awarded a competitive University Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations Laura, and look forward to you joining in the fall!
March 2017: The lab welcomes its second new member! Ryan Trexler will be joining us soon as a research technologist.
March 2017: The lab welcomes its first new member! Idalys Bonet will be working as an undergraduate research assistant.
January 2017: I am an invited speaker for the Soil Health, Microbiomes, and Climate-Adaptive Agriculture session at the National Council for Science and the Environment Conference in Washington, D.C., January 24th, 2017.
December 2016: Currently hiring for an undergraduate research assistant position to begin in February 2017. (Filled)
November 2016: Currently hiring for a research technologist position to begin in February 2017. (Filled)
December 2020: Caylon was just awarded a College of Ag Competitive Grant. Congratulations Caylon!
November 2020: Laura successfully passed her Comprehensive Exam. Congratulations Laura!
November 2020: New paper with Thomas Bell in FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Not sure whether Google Scholar will find this helpful or confusing!
November 2020: Laura has a new paper in Environmental Microbiology. Congratulations Laura!
November 2020: New episode of the Genome Insider Podcast with Alison Takemura is focused on our DG1 project with Mary Ann Bruns' lab. See here!
September 2020: Rondy's paper has been published in Biogeochemistry. Congratulations Rondy!
August 2020: Hiring for a research tech position, split 50:50 with Emily Davenport's lab. See the posting here.
August 2020: Great video about Caylon's work from the Huck Institutes!
June 2020: Jeremy was just awarded a Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellowship through 2023. Congratulations Jeremy!
May 2020: We have received funding from the USDA AFRI Foundational Program to assess the importance of generalist microorganisms in agricultural systems.
April 2020: We are thrilled to welcome Sarah Richards as a new Ph.D. student in our group for Fall 2020! Sarah will be entering through the Ecology program, and comes to us from Indigo Ag and the University of New Hampshire.
April 2020: Laura just received a P.E.O. Scholar Award. Congratulations Laura!
April 2020: Ryan just accepted a Ph.D. position in Estelle Couradeau's lab at Penn State. Congratulations Ryan!
March 2020: Caylon was just awarded a prestigious NSF GRFP award. Congratulations Caylon!
March 2020: We are really excited to announce the arrival of our first postdoc, William King. William comes to us from the University of Technology Sydney, and brings experience in molecular biology, biotechnology, and microbiology. Welcome William!
February 2020: At our lab party, we came up with some more useful words for the science community. When your paper is stuck in an endless cycle of revisions, you are in papergatory. And when a talk promises to be very exciting, but actually has little to do with what you care about, it was powerpointless.
February 2020: Helen Senerchia has just joined our lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Helen!
February 2020: Laura's article on microbiome transfer and our white paper from the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes Symposium were both among the 10 most downloaded articles in Phytobiomes for 2019.
January 2020: Jeremy passed the qualifying exam for the Bioinformatics and Genomics Program. Congratulations Jeremy!
December 2019: Congratulations to Jeremy for winning the PSU Student Leader Scholarship!
December 2019: Congratulations to Caylon and Miranda for being selected for Sloan Research Fellowships!
December 2019: Enjoyed speaking at PASA's Advanced Farmer Gathering. Great discussions about the role of soil microorganisms in agriculture.
November 2019: Congratulations Ryan! Ryan's article on sustained soil-to-soil contact for microbiome transfer is online now.
November 2019: Our Organic Transitions project is featured in Penn State News, alongside two other new projects from the College.
November 2019: Great 'Article-in-a-Day' retreat at Shaver's Creek! Thanks to Suzanne Fleishman and Sarah Isbell for contributing to this lab project.
October 2019: Collaborative paper with labs of Kevin Hockett, John Pecchia, and Carolee Bull, led by Samuel Martins, has been published in Phytobiomes. This was one of the first class projects in PPEM 497 (now PPEM 440)!
October 2019: In response to the Extension article put out earlier this year by Laura and me, I was interviewed for USDA radio. Thanks to Rod Bain and the production team!
October 2019: Happy to announce that a collaborative article on approaches to understanding N-cycling in ag systems, led by Mara Cloutier and Mary Ann Bruns, has been published!
October 2019: Congratulations to Laura! Laura passed her candidacy exam for the Plant Pathology graduate program.
October 2019: Happy to announce that we have had our project funded by the USDA Organic Transitions Program! This project is in collaboration with Jason Kaye and Anna Busch at Penn State, and involves on-farm work with farmers across Pennsylvania and New York, integration in the long-term Cover Crop Cocktail project at Penn State, and collaboration with PASA's Soil Health Benchmark Study.
October 2019: Very pleased to announce that William King (University of Technology Sydney) will be joining us as our first postdoctoral associate in early 2020. Welcome William!
October 2019: Congratulations to Laura! Laura won the Microbiome Center Networking Event poster competition and earned travel money for microbiome-related professional development. Caylon also presented a great poster, and Miranda gave an expert speed talk!
September 2019: Laura and I gave a talk titled 'Can we enhance microbial contributions to regenerative ag systems?' at the PASA-sponsored event Regenerative Grazing from the Ground Up: https://pasafarming.org/event/regenerative-grazing-from-the-ground-up/. Our first in-barn presentation!
August 2019: Laura has started distributing microbial cages developed by her and Emily Grandinette to begin an on-farm microbial conditioning project (see Photos).
August 2019: Enjoyed participating in Science on Tap with Kevin Hockett! Thanks to Jeremy Sutherland and other members of Penn State's Science Policy Society for organizing the event.
July 2019: We are happy to welcome back Emily Grandinette! Emily will be working on a DARPA-funded project led by Dr. Howard Salis.
July 2019: Recent graduate and NSF PRFB awardee Rondy Malik gave an invited talk at UMass-Boston on success, titled "What makes you tick? Recalibrating the road to success". Congratulations Rondy!
July 2019: Our white paper from the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes symposium is currently the most read paper in Phytobiomes!
June 2019: Had a great time presenting at USDA APHIS with Dr. Maria Jimenez-Gasco, Laura Bautista, Emma Rosenthal, Caylon, and Miranda. Thanks to Drs. Martha Malapi-Wight and Gloria Abad for hosting, and for everyone who facilitated our tour of the PPQ facility!
May 2019: A response to a response to our recent Trends in Biotechnology article here. Thank you to Drs. Beth Gugino and John Carlson for contributing their expertise!
May 2019: Congratulations Rondy! Rondy successfully passed his Ph.D. dissertation defense, and will be moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kansas.
May 2019: Nice article about Laura in Penn State News.
May 2019: Congratulations Ryan! Ryan was awarded the Ambassador Award by the College of Agricultural Sciences. This award is given to the staff member in the College who best exemplifies service to others, both internal and external to the unit, and exhibits a high level of professionalism, uses university resources for effective problem solving, and practices the philosophy of continuous quality improvement.
April 2019: A new term from last night's lab party: When you are ready to perform a clean assay in the molecular lab and there is soil all over your bench, you are the victim of "A Dirtsturbance".
April 2019: Congratulations Miranda! Miranda successfully passed her written and oral candidacy exams for the Ecology program.
April 2019: Congratulations Laura! Laura is now an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and will be using her award to explore the conditions that promote or inhibit microbial establishment in soils.
April 2019: Congratulations Caylon! Caylon successfully passed his written and oral candidacy exams for the Ecology program.
April 2019: Congratulations Rondy! Rondy was awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship (PRFB), which he will be making use of at the University of Kansas in the lab of Dr. James Bever.
March 2019: Excited that our white paper from the Wild and Tamed Phytobiomes meeting has been published. Got to work with many great co-authors! https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PBIOMES-01-19-0006-W
February 2019: Congratulations to the mBiome cohort for a successful first outreach event! https://mbiome.weebly.com/outreach.html
January 2019: Welcome to two new co-advised graduate students! Rondy Malik (co-advised with Dr. David Eissenstat) and Jeremy Sutherland (co-advised with Dr. Jesse Lasky) recently joined our group.
January 2019: Welcome to undergraduate Patrick Brown! Patrick will be assisting with graduate student projects in our lab.
December 2018: Thoroughly enjoyed the International Phytobiomes Conference in Montpellier, France. Laura Kaminsky gave a great poster presentation. Thanks to the organizing committee for selecting me to speak!
November 2018: From a strange brainstorming session in a February lab meeting, to article acceptance in November: Congratulations to Laura, Ryan, Rondy, and our collaborator Dr. Kevin Hockett on having our Opinion article accepted in Trends in Biotechnology! Thanks also to Idalys and Emily for creative contributions to the brainstorming session.
October 2018: Congratulations to Laura Kaminsky! She was awarded funds from the College of Agriculture Tag Along Fund to present at the International Phytobiomes Conference in December.
October 2018: Congratulations to Caylon Yates! Caylon won the Lightning Talk competition at the 3rd Annual Microbiome Center Networking Event. He was awarded $250 for travel to a conference.
September 2018: Thanks to Sarah Hind and the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois for inviting me to speak, and for hosting me during my visit. A great experience meeting everyone!
August 2018: Congratulations to Laura Kaminsky for having her first career article accepted in Phytobiomes!
July 2018: Welcome to our 3rd grad student Caylon! Now time to herd some soil microbes.
July 2018: We are super excited to officially welcome Miranda to the lab! Finally starting to feel like a team around here.
May 2018: Very grateful for support from the Joan Luerssen Faculty Enhancement Fund and PSU College of Agriculture, which will allow me to attend the International Phytobiomes Conference in December.
May 2018: Enjoyed meeting with faculty and students from the Department of Microbiology at Cornell. Thanks to Andrew St. James and FoMS for the invitation!
March 2018: Lots of fun leading today's Microbiome Center workshop, "Working in R for Microbiome Analysis". We had a packed house!
March 2018: Laura placed first in her category for the poster competition at the Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo. Congratulations Laura!
March 2018: We are excited to welcome Miranda DePriest, who will be joining us as an Ecology Ph.D. student in Fall 2018. She will be supported in part by fellowships from the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Huck Institutes. Congratulations Miranda!
February 2018: We are excited to welcome Caylon Yates, who will be joining us as an Ecology Ph.D. student in Fall 2018. He will be supported in part by fellowships from the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Huck Institutes. Congratulations Caylon!
February 2018: New lab word for crud inside a centrifuge is 'centrifudge'.
February 2018: Congratulations to Laura, who was awarded a PPEM Library Sequence Data Generation and Curation Grant!
February 2018: Excited to collaborate with PD Dr. Michela Centinari and Co-PD Dr. Dave Eissenstat on a new USDA AFRI Foundational grant, allowing us to look at how grapevine root-associated microbiomes are shaped by depth and root architecture.
January 2018: Feature story on the Schreyer Institute website about PPEM497:
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/feature
January 2018: Welcome to our new undergraduate, Brandon Wilt!
January 2018: Welcome to Laura Kaminsky, as she gets started in the lab!
December 2017: Emily Grandinette was selected for a 2018 summer internship at Monsanto in San Diego, CA. Congratulations Emily!
November 2017: We are recruiting 5 Ph.D. fellows to a new graduate cohort (mBiome), funded by Penn State's College of Agriculture, to look at microbiome manipulation across the agricultural chain. Contact me, or see here for details about positions:
https://www.huck.psu.edu/content/research/microbiome-center/student-resources
November 2017: Ryan presented his work on microbiome transfer at the Allegheny Branch of ASM meeting at Juniata College.
September 2017: I am giving a keynote talk on phytobiomes at the International Phytotechnologies Conference in Montreal.
September 2017: PPEM 497 students have started working on microbiome-based projects to assist the research of Dr. Michela Centinari (vineyard root-associated microbiomes), Dr. Kevin Hockett, and Dr. Carolee Bull (microbiomes associated with mushroom cap disease).
July 2017: Received course enhancement funds from Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, which will allow us to work on actual faculty research projects in PPEM 497.
May 2017: Along with Dr. Mary Ann Bruns, awarded metatranscriptomic sequencing funds through the Small-scale Microbial/Metagenome Program at the Joint Genome Institute to look at interactions between a soil surface consortium and underlying soil microbiomes.
April 2017: Manuscript comparing soil microbiome transfer methods, authored by Mia Howard, myself, and Dr. Jenny Kao-Kniffin, accepted in FEMS Microbiology Letters.
March 2017: Laura Kaminsky has just agreed to a position as the lab's first graduate student. Laura was also awarded a competitive University Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations Laura, and look forward to you joining in the fall!
March 2017: The lab welcomes its second new member! Ryan Trexler will be joining us soon as a research technologist.
March 2017: The lab welcomes its first new member! Idalys Bonet will be working as an undergraduate research assistant.
January 2017: I am an invited speaker for the Soil Health, Microbiomes, and Climate-Adaptive Agriculture session at the National Council for Science and the Environment Conference in Washington, D.C., January 24th, 2017.
December 2016: Currently hiring for an undergraduate research assistant position to begin in February 2017. (Filled)
November 2016: Currently hiring for a research technologist position to begin in February 2017. (Filled)