Preprint Update
ShadeLab has provided a revision of our previous preprint: Prioritizing persistent microbiome members in the common bean rhizosphere: an...
New preprint! Exometabolite dynamics over stationary phase
Congrats to John C for his preprint posted on the bioRXiv this week! It is "part 1" of a big experiment that asked how microbiome...
Preprint: Pilot study: Seed microbiome modification after maternal plant stress
Fina, Pat, Abby and Ashley have a new preprint out describing the results of our Plant Resilience Institute supported pilot study that...


John C is heading off to an NSF INTERNship with DuPont!
ShadeLab aims to support each of our students and post-docs in pursuing professional development opportunities that advance their...
Fina's new pub out on microbiome co-occurrence networks in the apple root zone
Fina Bintarti, a ShadeLab Ph.D. student in Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, has published her first lead-author ShadeLab...
Ashley is an MSU Communications Fellow
For the Spring 2020 semester, Ashley is engaged in training as an MSU Academic Communications Fellow! MSU University Communications...
John C wins the Russell B. DuVall Award!
Congrats to MMG grad student John Chodkowski! He has been recognized as with the Russell B. DuVall MMG Award, which is given to honor a...
Jackson's new paper is out: dormancy, dispersal and resilience
The final chapter of MMG graduate Jackson Sorensen's dissertation has been published online today in a special issue of Philosophical...
Ashley presents at CIMM
This week, Ashley is in San Diego to present her work on Microbiome Resilience at the UCSD's Center for Microbiome Innovation's...

Oishi wins a summer LTER fellowship!
Many congratulations to #ShadeLab second-year MMG grad student Oishi Bagchi on winning a summer fellowship from the Long Term Ecological...