Lana received her Bachelor of Science from University of Minnesota where she double majored in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior & Plant Biology. Lana has received a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She is currently studying how and why microbes can help plants adapt to environmental stress.
Kane Keller
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.
Meredith Zettlemoyer
Meredith completed her Ph.D. in Summer 2020 and is currently a post doc in Megan Peterson’s lab at University of Georgia. For her Ph.D. Meredith used huge field experiments to investigate the causes of local extinctions.
Susan Magnoli
Susan completed her Ph.D. Winter 2018 and moved on to a USDA NIFA funded post doc in Jim Beaver’s lab at the University of Kansas. For her Ph.D., Susan investigated the role of rapid adaptation in ecological restorations.