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Community Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology

Tomomi Suwa

April 12, 2021 by laulabadmin

Tomomi Suwa is now a Data Scientist at The Field Museum.  For her Ph.D., Tomomi investigated how rhizobium mutualists can facilitate plant adaptation to soil moisture.

Filed Under: Former Labbies

Tyler Bassett

April 12, 2021 by laulabadmin

Tyler is currently a Conservation Associate at the Michigan Natural Features Inventory. Tyler is a well known Michigan botanist and studied the effects of species diversity on stability, invasion resistance, and ecosystem functions in restored prairies for his Ph.D.

Filed Under: Former Labbies

Liz Schultheis

November 2, 2017 by Jen Lau

Liz completed her PhD in Summer 2016 and went on co-found DataNuggets, a popular educational tool that uses small authentic datasets to teach elementary through high school students how to answer questions with data and how to create and interpret graphs.  She is now Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS). You can read more about here work at https://ehschultheis.wordpress.com

Filed Under: Former Labbies

Kane Keller

November 2, 2017 by Jen Lau

Kane completed his PhD in Summer 2016, went on to a postdoc at the University of Minnesota, and is now an Assistant Professor at Cal State University, Bakersfield. Kane is a community ecologist studying how mutualisms and other symbioses influence plant community ecology.

Filed Under: Former Labbies, Graduate Students

Casey terHorst

November 2, 2017 by laulabadmin

Casey, a former postdoc, is now an Assistant Professor at Cal State Northridge, where he studies a wide variety of species interactions, including the legume-rhizobium mutualism and coral-symbiont mutualisms. He completed his Ph.D. at Florida State University with Tom Miller and Don Levitan. He is happy to be back at the same institution where he received his Master’s degree (with Steve Dudgeon). You can read more about Casey at his lab site.

Filed Under: Former Labbies

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Lab Updates

May 15, 2021

Mackenzie Caple and Guillaume Dury just received funding from the IU RTP to study the effects of the Cicada emergence on mutualisms and plant evolution.

April 15, 2021

Congratulations to Emma Boehm for receiving the NSF GRFP.

January 8, 2021

Lana Bolin  received funding from the IU Environmental Resilience Institute to start a cool new program introducing community college students to ecological research.

September 1, 2017

Lana Bolin and Elizabeth Yablon are new first year students in the Lau Lab.  Welcome to MSU!

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