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...
New preprint posted on phyllosphere microbiome activities
Do you LOVE metaT, metaG, MAGs, time series, bioenergy, and/ or plant-microbiome ecology? Check out #ShadeLab's latest preprint, fresh...


Showing off #ShadeLab undergrad research
ShadeLab undergraduate researchers Joanna Colovas and Keean Dolan have created virtual poster presentations of their work for the annual...
Open post-doctoral position is now LIVE!
We are pleased to announce an open post-doctoral position. This is an open competition. Please apply at MSU Careers website.