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Avery Folsom has just won the Russell and Anna Duncan Undergraduate Research Scholarship offered by the College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources (CAFSNR). Congratulations Avery! ...

We recently did an outreach event through the NATURE (Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education) Academy. We went to four tribal colleges across North Dakota to conduct hands-on workshops on the importance of belowground communities ...

We welcome Isha Pokhrel, a new PhD Student. Isha will investigate the role of keystone taxa in dysbiosis ...

Banerjee has been selected as one of the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers for the second consecutive year. Last year, he was selected in the ‘Cross-Field’ category. This year, he has been selected in the ‘Microbiology’ category ...

Banerjee gave a plenary presentation at the 2024 International Phytobiomes Conference in St Louis, Missouri ...

Miranda just defended her master’s thesis. She is starting a PhD in Soil Science ...

Lennel, Debarshi, and Dr. Banerjee gave oral presentations 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. ...

Banerjee delivered a keynote presentation on one health at the CAFNR Research Symposium on the 75 th Anniversary of the Discovery of Aureomycin ...

Banerjee delivered an oral presentation on the links between soil health and human health to the United Nations General Assembly Science Summit on Sept. 13 ...

Rylie just defended her master’s thesis. She is starting a job with USDA ...

Lennel’s paper on grazing just came out in Applied and Environmental Microbiology Grazing intensity alters network complexity and predator–prey relationships in the soil microbiome ...

We welcome Purbasa Kole, a new PhD Student. Purbasa’s project will utilize high-throughput culturing to isolate beneficial microorganisms from soil. She will also determine microbial contributions to soil health ...

Lennel, Ditam, Kivi, and Dr. Banerjee gave oral presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Long Beach, California ...

Debarshi has been selected to participate in the 2024-2027 Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR) Fellow program. Congrats, Debarshi! ...

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 the third place for her oral presentation. Congratulations! ...

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 ...