Lennel has received the 2024 Possibility Entrepreneur Scholarship. Miranda has received the 2024 Francis LaPlante Soil Health Scholarship.

Lennel has been selected as one of the Ambassadors of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC).

Sakshi Paudel successfully defended her master’s thesis. She will be starting a PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

Cecelia Castleberry successfully defended her master’s thesis. She was co-supervised  by Drs. Caley Gasch and Samiran Banerjee.

We welcome Ditam Chakraborty, a new PhD student. Ditam’s PhD project will utilize culturomics and biotechnological approaches to validate the role of microbial keystone taxa.

Rylie has been awarded the 2022 Funke Medel of Excellence. This medel recognizes the best all-round student in the Microbiology program. Congratulations, Rylie!

We welcome Debarshi Dasgupta to our lab. Debarshi’s work is supported by the DEQ 319 project that explores microbiome management and nutrient-use efficiency.

Graduate students presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the North Central Branch of American Society for Microbiology. Lennel got the 2nd place for his poster presentation and Debdutta got

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Sakshi Paudel has received a graduate student research grant from North Central SARE. Well done, Sakshi!

Our lab has received funding from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to investigate how soil microbiomes can be managed to improve fertilizer-use efficiency and groundwater quality in agricultural systems.