

EDAMAME is underway!
Jackson, Siobhan, and Ashley are at Explorations in Data Analyses for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME) at MSU's...
CRT study published at mBio
Our new paper was published today at mBio! Conditionally rare taxa disproportionately contribute to changes in microbial diversity...


Ashley attends NEON metagenomics workshop
Ashley is in Boulder, CO for the National Ecological Observatory Network's Advanced Analysis of Microbial Genomic Data Workshop from July...
Welcome Keara!
ShadeLab welcomes lab manager Keara Towery!
Welcome Siobhan and Jackson!
Shade Lab welcomes MMG rotation students, Siobhan Cusack and Jackson Sorensen.

Conditionally Rare Taxa detection script v1.0 released
We have released our R scripts for detecting conditionally rare microbial taxa in a community time series. You can find the scripts on...

Announcing EDAMAME
We are pleased to announce a new intensive short course, EDAMAME (Explorations in Data Analyses for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial...

New review on flower microbiota published in Botany
Title: The microbial ecology of flowers: an emerging frontier in phyllosphere research by Kristin Aleklett, Miranda Hart, and Ashley...