Principal investigators

Postdoctoral research associates

Graduate students

Undergraduate researchers

Graduates, former researchers, and visitors

Matthias (in picture below shown with daughter Jamina) is interested in the role of fungi in ecosystems, with an emphasis on the ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Matthias was born in Speyer, Germany, and did his undergraduate work at Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany) and University of Edinburgh (Scotland). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 in Ecology from San Diego State University/ UC Davis, working with Mike Allen. After a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Plant Biology (Stanford) with Chris Field, he moved to University of Montana.

Pedobiologia - International Journal of Soil Biology (Editor-in-Chief)

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Dan has a Ph.D. from University of Wyoming (2003) and is interested in spatial aspects of soil microbial communities, soil aggregation, and the use of molecular methods to address questions in microbial community ecology.

Dr. Mary Harner

Mary has a Ph.D. (2006) from University of New Mexico, and she joined the lab as a postdoctoral research associate in October 2006. Her interests are in riparian ecology.

Carl received his undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz, and joined the lab, coming from Bitterroot Inc.; he is interested in glomalin-related soil protein and other applied aspects of AMF. Carl is also interested in ecology and soils education.

Jeff came to us in summer 2003 from University of Maine with a M.Sc. His Master's work was on Chytridiomycota. Jeff is interested in fungal biology and works on diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and also on a riparian chronosequence.

Daniel Warnock (Ph.D. student, Integrative Microbiology & Biochem., Microbial Ecol. option)

Daniel joined us in Fall 2004 from University of Oregon, where he obtained his undergraduate degree. He is interested in effects of charcoal on soil fungi.

         

 

Sonia Purin (Ph.D. student, Integrative Microbiology & Biochem., Microbial Ecol. option)

Sonia joined the lab in Fall 2006 with a Master's degree from UDESC Lages, Centro de Ciências Agroveterinárias, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Sonia has a CAPES/ Fulbright fellowship from the Brazilian government; she is interested in glomalin.

 

           

 Graduates

Griselda Y. Hernandez (M.Sc. in Biochem/ Microbiology, option in Microbial Ecology), 2001. - Job after graduation: Instructor for microbiology at a community college in San Diego, CA; and Microbiologist for a biotech indoor air quality company.

Emily R. Lutgen (M.Sc. in Biochem/Microbiology, option in Microbial Ecology), 2002. - Job after graduation: after research associate stint in the Rillig lab, Environmental Health Specialist for Missoula County, MT.

 

Former  researchers:

Undergraduate researchers

Egan Jankowski-Bradley (2000), Anna Nugent (2000), Kelsey Ripley (2001), Amy Bamber (2001), Amanda Roberson (2001), Peter Steinberg ( 2001-2), Amanda Scholz ( 2001-2), Jacqueline Papez ( 2001-2), L. Jamie Lamit (2002), Nick Deyo (2003), Matt  Gibson (2003), Chase Williams ( 2003); Deborah Muir-Clairmont (from SKC);  Amanda Roberson (2005); Kaerlek Janislampi (2006); Andrew Hoye (2003-2006); Scott Morford (2006); Karissa Ramstead (summer 2006); Stephanie Seewald (summer 2006); Nathan Meyers (summer 2006), Joanna James (2006), Annika Johns (2004-2006).

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr. James Driver (research associate until 2004); Dr. Ylva Lekberg (2005, postdoctoral research associate); Dr. Vijay Gadkar (research assistant professor, 2004-2006).

 

 

Visitors from other institutions:

Dr. John Klironomos (U Guelph), 2000; Melissa Knorr (MSc student, Ohio State), 2001; Nancy Shum (undergrad, San Francisco State University), 2001; Michael Adamski (undergrad, Illinois), Benjamin E. Wolfe (University of Guelph, 1 semester in 2004), Dr. Edmundo Barrios (TSBF-CIAT, Colombia), October 2004; Dr. Ylva Lekberg (Penn State), April 2005, Jeff Powell (University of Guelph, summer 2006).

 

 

 

 

 

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