People

Nick Dragone
Graduate student
Research Foci: Antarctic microbial ecology, microbial traits, microbial succession

Kunkun Fan
Visiting graduate student from Institute of Soil Science, China
Research foci: rhizosphere microbial communities, soil foodwebs


Matt Gebert
Graduate Student
Research Foci: ecology and evolution of mycobacteria

Sarah Gering
Graduate student
Research Foci: arctic and alpine microbial ecology, pyroaerobiology, host-microbe interactions

Lady Grant
Research associate
Research Foci: soil microbiology, molecular methods in microbial ecology, agroecology

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

Blessing Sokoya
Graduate Student
Research Foci: soil microbial ecology, urban ecology

Elias Stallard-Olivera
Graduate student
Research Foci: spatial ecology, allergens, remote sensing

Caihong Vanderburgh
Research Associate
Research Foci: methods development and implementation

Corinne Walsh
Graduate student
Research Foci: plant-microbe interactions, soil microbial ecology

Claire Winfrey
Graduate student
Research Foci: insect-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)
Tess Brewer (postdoctoral researcher, Univ. of Zurich)
Robert Bowers (research scientist, Joint Genome Institute)
Paul Carini (assistant professor, Univ. of Arizona)
Mallory Choudoir (postdoctoral researcher, UMass-Amherst)
Jason Corwin (postdoctoral researcher, Colorado State Univ.)
Manu Delgado-Baquerizo (assistant professor, Univ. Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain)
Joanne Emerson (assistant professor, UC-Davis)
Gilberto Flores (assistant professor, Cal State – Northridge)
Toby Hammer (assistant professor, UC-Irvine)
Chris Lauber (researcher, Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital)
Jonathan Leff (senior data scientist, ArcherDX)
Anne Madden (postdoctoral researcher, NC State)
Angela Oliverio (computational biologist, Archer DX)
Amanda Redford (researcher, USDA Center for Plant Health Science and Technology)
Kelly Ramirez (assistant professor, Univ. of Texas at El Paso)
Tara Webster (environmental health educator, Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment)