2024
May 10-12 – Liv and Sarah traveled to Naches, WA to participate in the Pacific Northwest Key Council spring meeting.
May 8th – Claire and colleagues published “Ectomycorrhizal fungi alter soil food webs and the functional potential of bacterial communities” in the Host-Microbial Interactions Journal.
April 29th – Claire and colleagues developed a risk assessment framework for forest microbiomes under climate change that unites microbial and forest ecology. This framework can be used to synthesize existing research and inspire new directions of research! Published in Nature Climate Change
March – As a member of NAMA’s Voucher Committee, Liv collaborated on an article detailing the 26 years of the voucher collection project and NAMA-supported community science. Read “The Voucher Collection Project: Celebrating 26 years of NAMA supported community science“ in Mycophile 2024 Q1
March 14th – The FMLab hosted Dr. Megan Morris, microbial ecologist and friend of Dr. Willing, for a visit to our campus. While here Megan gave a seminar on opportunities with federal agencies through her employer, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Dr. Morris did her Ph.D. with Rachel Vannette and postdocs with Tad Fukami at Stanford as well as Jennifer Pett-Ridge at Lawrence Livermore. Check out her publications here.
March – Students in Claire’s graduate seminar compiled a list of hot topics in climate change ecology and wrote up why these papers are such exciting advances for the research community. Find the list of papers here.
February – Graduate student Sarah wrote on a small article on how they are using the Burke Museum’s herbarium collections to jump start their Ph.D. research. Read their article “Rooted in the Past: Utilizing Herbarium Specimens to Assess Plant Root-Microbiome Communities on a Temporal Gradient” to learn more. Burke Herbarium Newsletter, Winter 2024