

Meet our New Rotating Students
Welcome Hunter Dulay, Kati Ford, and Rose Kithan! Hunter is a graduate student in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and is interested...
New Preprint: 16S rRNA:rDNA ratios aren't all that bad (for understanding activity dynamics)!
Alan, Pat, and Ashley have a new pre-print out and about on the bioRxiv- comments welcome! 16S rRNA:rDNA ratios and cell activity...
Another New Preprint! Understanding the genomic locations of antibiotic resistance genes
Taylor and Ashley, with collaborators Adina and Jin at Iowa State, have a new pre-print out on the bioRXiv this week. RefSoil+: A...
New article published in TREE!
We had a new article published in TREE. It's called Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small by Ashley Shade, Robert R. Dunn,...


Ashley Returns to Madison
This week, Ashley traveled to her alma mater- the University of Wisconsin-Madison - to sample the microbiome of some very special Poplar...
Ashley visits Georgia
Ashley is excited to be heading to the University of Georgia today to give a seminar in the Department of Microbiology! She'll be giving...
Response to a new graduate student: advice for how to to choose a lab
Find a really good research fit. You want to be sure that you are really into the research questions and very motivated by those...
ShadeLab at ESA meeting in New Orleans
Phytohormones can resuscitate dormant environmental bacteria ... Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 8:20 AM 346-347, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial...
EDAMAME is here!
This week, ShadeLab is hosting the 5th year of our Explorations in Data Analysis for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME)...
See you at Penn State Phytobiomes Meeting
This week, Ashley, Nejc, and Fina are traveling to the Penn State Phytobiomes meeting! Ashley will be speaking about rhizosphere...






