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Congratulations to Allison Lab undergraduate Elizabeth Duan who has received the honor of Excellence in Research for her project “Characterizing extracellular microbial activity of tropical deadwood decay in Australia”!

Congratulations to Allison Lab undergraduate Brian Chung who has received a Space Grant research scholarship for his work on microbial enzymes in the Earth system!

Kelly Ramin’s dissertation work on “Bacterial Tradeoffs in Growth Rate and Extracellular Enzymes” is now published in Frontiers in Microbiology (open access)!

Steven Allison and Humanities Dean Tyrus Miller co-authored an article for The Conversation on “Why Science Needs the Humanities to Solve Climate Change”. Follow-up radio interview on “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen” is available as a...

Congratulations to postdoc Bin Wang for publishing his paper “Emergent properties of organic matter decomposition by soil enzymes” in Soil Biology & Biochemistry. The paper shows a new mathematical approach for scaling up enzyme kinetics that could be...

Steve Allison wrote a News and Views article about Ember Morrissey et al.’s paper on growth and resource use traits in soil microbial communities published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Postdoc Bin Wang published a reply to commentary on his recent paper about aggregate biogeochemical reactors in soils: check it out here!

Congratulations to undergraduate Therese Pham for winning a CalSpace award, funded by the Space Grant Consortium at UCSD! This $1000 award recognizes Therese’s academic accomplishments and research on environmental bacteria and their enzymatic traits.

Steven Allison has donated to be come a Founding Member of the 500 Women Scientists Fellowship for the Future.

New paper in Soil Biology and Biochemistry by postdoc Ashish Malik shows a tradeoff between soil microbial investment in growth yield versus enzyme production.