Congratulations to graduate student Kristin Barbour who published a paper in Soil Biology & Biochemistry on microbial response to global changes, including wildfire, as a function of soil depth: "Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with...
Our NSF-funded DIGME collaboration on microbial response to drought has published a synthesis paper led by Sarah Evans in Functional Ecology: "Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling"
Graduate student Nick Scales recently published a collaborative paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology: "Differential Response of Bacterial Microdiversity to Simulated Global Change." Nice work!
Former postdoc Bin Wang recently published a modeling analysis with DEMENTpy that appeared in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution: "Climate-Driven Legacies in Simulated Microbial Communities Alter Litter Decomposition Rates"
Congratulations to Andie Nugent who recently published her first dissertation chapter "A framework for soil microbial ecology in urban ecosystems" in Ecosphere!
Congratulations to Bahareh Sorouri who recently published her first dissertation chapter "Microbial extracellular enzyme activity with simulated climate change" in Elementa!
Congratulations to Jocelyn Tran for winning a UROP fellowship and to Kavisha Behl and Yae Eun Yoon for being awarded a UROP summer fellowship with Andie Nugent as the graduate student mentor!
Steven Allison has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to the field of ecology and evolution, particularly the analysis of microbial feedbacks to environmental change, and for training and...
On October 1, Steven Allison began serving as Director of UCI's Newkirk Center for Science & Society. The interdisciplinary campus center develops programs to understand and promote the role of science in addressing societal problems.
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Scholar Brittni Bertolet for an award winning summer! Brittni received an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology, a Diversity Recruitment Fellowship from UCI BioSci, and the Elizabeth Sulzman Award for an outstanding dissertation paper...