People
Izzy Becker-Uncapher
Undergraduate researcher
Research focus: plant-microbe interactions
Laura Brandon
Undergraduate researcher
Research focus: microbial community analyses
Tess Brewer
Postdoc
Research Foci: Soil microbes, microbial weathering, microbial genomics/metagenomics
Manu Delgado-Baquerizo
Postdoc
Research Focus: Soil microbial ecology, terrestrial ecosystem ecology
Nick Dragone
Graduate student
Research Foci: Antarctic microbial ecology, microbial traits
Matt Gebert
Graduate Student
Research Foci: ecology and evolution of mycobacteria
Lady Grant
Undergraduate researcher
Research Foci: soil microbiology, molecular methods in microbial ecology
Jessica Henley
Lab Manager
Research Focus: high-throughput microbial community analyses
Hannah Holland-Moritz
Graduate Student
Research Foci: microbial succession, moss-associated microbes
Luna
Foci: snacks, dinosaurs, fart jokes
Angela Oliverio
Graduate Student
Research Foci: microbial eukaryotes, thermal adaptations of microbes
Seana Thompson
Undergraduate researcher
Research Focus: plant-microbe interactions
Caihong Vanderburgh
Research Associate
Research focus: methods development/implementation
Corinne Walsh
Graduate student
Research Focus: plant-microbe interactions, soil microbial ecology
Former postdocs and graduate students (current position):
Albert Barberan (assistant professor, Univ. of Arizona)
Scott Bates (assistant professor, Purdue University)
Robert Bowers (research scientist, Joint Genome Institute)
Paul Carini (assistant professor, Univ. of Arizona)
Mallory Choudoir (microbiologist, Indigo Agriculture)
Jason Corwin (postdoctoral researcher, Colorado State Univ.)
Joanne Emerson (assistant professor, UC-Davis)
Toby Hammer (postdoctoral researcher, UT-Austin)
Jonathan Leff (senior data scientist, ArcherDX)
Gilberto Flores (assistant professor, Cal State – Northridge)
Anne Madden (postdoctoral researcher, NC State)
Chris Lauber (researcher, Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital)
Amanda Redford (researcher, USDA Center for Plant Health Science and Technology)
Kelly Ramirez (postdoctoral scholar, Netherlands Institute of Ecology)
Tara Webster (environmental health educator, Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment)
