Pilot bean seed stress experiment accepted at Microbiology Spectrum
We're pleased to announce that a match has been made with our pilot experiment data that observed that the endophytic seed microbiome is...
New co-evolution experiment results posted to bioRXiv
ShadeLab Ph.D. grad John Chodkowski is at it again with the public release of his final chapter of his dissertation work to understand...
New version of SynCom competition paper on the bioRXiv!
We're pleased to push a new version of our systems- and community ecology analysis of a simple synthetic community to the bioRXIv. This...
ShadeLab paper by Nejc short-listed for ISMEJ paper of the year 2021
We're excited to learn that Nejc Stopnisek's formidable paper on the common bean microbiome is on the short-list for the ISMEJ paper of...
Welcome new ShadeLab members for the Spring Semester 2022
We warmly welcome new ShadeLab members Erica Cortez and Max Kessler! Erica is a PREP student who is post-bac and applying to grad school...


Joanna wins undergrad research award
Congratulations to ShadeLab MMG BS/MS student Joanna Colovas on winning the Richard M. and Susan S. Van Frank Undergraduate Research Fund...

Congrats to John Chodkowski, Ph.D.!
We are SO PROUD of Dr. John Chodkowski, a newly minted Ph.D. from the MSU Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and the...
Ashley at the virtual Soil Health Institute meeting
Thanks to the Soil Health Institute for the opportunity to join the 6th annual meeting virtually and share some thoughts about how to...
New pub out and about: Microbiome variability among single seeds
Congrats to Fina and Abby and Nejc' on their latest publication in the APS Phytobiomes Journal, now available ahead-of-press via First...
Welcome to new ShadeLab members, and best wishes to our graduates!
ShadeLab has had a lot of happy transitions recently! We weclome Dr. Samuel Barnett as a new post-doctoral scholar to work on the...