Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Scholar with Ashley Shade

Michigan State University

Apr 2017 – Present Michigan
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Scholar with David A Stahl

University of Washington

Nov 2014 – Mar 2017 Washington
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant with Laure Weisskopf

University of Zurich

Sep 2010 – Oct 2014 Switzerland
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant with Ines Mandic-Mulec

University of Ljubljana

Dec 2009 – Aug 2010 Slovenia
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting researcher in James I Prosser group

University of Aberdeen

Feb 2009 – Aug 2009 UK

News

Synergistic epistasis enhances cooperativity of mutualistic interspecies interactions

Cross-continental biogeography of the common bean rhizosphere microbiome reveals a persistent core membership

Projects

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Phyllopshere microbiome of bioenergy crops

Understanding the leaf microbiome of bioenergy crops (switchgrass, miscanthus) for improving plant yields, protection and sustainable growth.

Microbial community structure and activities at microscales

Investigating how soil aggregates influence ammonia oxidizing community composition, diversity and activity.

The common bean microbiome

Determining beneficial microbes for improving common bean health.

Syntrophyc interactions

Anaerobic syntrophic interactions between sulfate reducing bacteria and methanogens.

Burkholderia sp. in soil environment

Genus Burkholderia - importance of biotic interactions for successful colonization of acid soils

Ammonia oxidation in soils

Ammonia oxidizing archaea in soils and importance of organic derived ammonium

Publications

(2020). Prioritizing persistent microbiome members in the common bean rhizosphere: an integrated analysis of space, time, and plant genotype. Cross-continental biogeography of the common bean rhizosphere microbiome reveals a persistent core membership.

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(2016). Molecular mechanisms underlying the close association between soil Burkholderia and fungi. The ISME journal.

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(2010). Thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidation in an acidic forest peat soil is not influenced by ammonium amendment. Applied and Envriornmental Micrbiology.

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