November 2025
CANVAS 2025
PhD students, Debarshi and Purbasa, presented three oral presentations and a poster at this important annual meeting. Their presentations highlighted the factors influencing soil, plant, and water microbiomes. Banerjee organized a Symposium at for the Soil Biology and Biochemistry Division of the Soil Science Society of America. The symposium titled “;Using Network Analysis in Soil Biology: Understanding the Do's and Don’tst;,”. This symposium highlighted the limitations of co-occurrence network analyses and presented strategies to address these limitations. Along with other distinguished speakers, Banerjee discussed how network analysis can be used to generate hypotheses that can be tested empirically.
November 2025
Banerjee gave an invited talk at a special webinar organized by the ND Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. He shared some findings from the ND Agricultural Microbiome Project.
April 2025
Our lab had an incredible opportunity to be involved in the NATURE Sunday Academy program! The NATURE (Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education) initiative has been inspiring Native American middle and high school students for more than 25 years through hands-on STEM learning experiences on tribal college campuses across North Dakota. Over the past few months, we traveled to Turtle Mountain Community College, Sitting Bull College, NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE and Cankdeska Cikana Community College for the outreach. During our visit, we demon strated microbial cultures on plates, the fascinating microscopic structures of vesicles and arbuscules in mycorrhizal fungi, and tardigrades extracted
from moss samples. The students’ excitement and curiosity were amazing to see- many asked great questions, and a few even said they’d love to study at North Dakota State University someday! We’re so glad we could be part of this experience and help spark interest in science in the next generation!
January 2025
Banerjee gave an invited presentation at South Dakota State University. His talk focused on the impact of environmental and anthropogenic stressors on plant and soil microbiomes.
November 2024
Banerjee gave a plenary presentation at the 2024 International Phytobiomes Conference in St Louis, Missouri.
November 2024
Lennel, Debarshi, and Banerjee gave oral presentations at the 2024 ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Banerjee gave a talk at the Special Symposium on the NASEM Report Exploring the Linkages between Soil Health and Human Health.
October 2024
Banerjee gave a keynote presentation on one health at the CAFNR Research Symposium on the75 th Anniversary of the Discovery of Aureomycin.
September 2024
Banerjee gave an oral presentation on the links between soil health and human health at the United Nations General Assembly Science Summit on Sept. 13.
July 2024
Banerjee gave a short presentation at the Carrington Research and Extension Center Field Day. The presentation highlighted the role of soil microbiomes in soil and crop health.
February 2024
Banerjee gave a keynote presentation at the Bottom Line Ag Summit in Bismarck, ND. The workshop was organized by the Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory of USDA.
January 2024
Banerjee gave a remote oral presentation on keystone taxa at the MICROBE Workshop organized by Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany.
August 2023
Alan, Debarshi, and Miranda delivered oral presentations at the 2023 Ecological Society of America (ESA) held in Portland, Oregon. Debarshi received a student travel grant from the Agroecology section.
May 2023
Lennel received a fellowship to attend a workshop on Invasions and Ecosystems held at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
January 2023
Lennel delivered an oral presentation at the Second Perennial Cool-Season Invasive Grasses of the Northern Great Plains Workshop held in Fargo.
November 2022
Banerjee and Lennel delivered oral presentations at the 2022 ASA, CSSA and SSSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
November 2022
Sakshi, Miranda, and Debarshi presented at the 82nd North Central Branch Meeting of ASM in Grinnell, Iowa.
August 2022
Banerjee delivered an oral presentation in the “Ecological Networks in Belowground Communities” session at the 2022 Ecological Society of America (ESA) held in Montreal, Canada.
November 2021
Lennel and Debdutta presented at the 81st North Central Branch Meeting of American Society for Microbiology. Lennel won the second prize for his poster presentation, and Debdutta won the third prize for her oral presentation.
September 2020
Debdutta presented a poster at the 80th North Central Branch Meeting of American Society for Microbiology.