RESEARCH INTERESTS
Functional diversity and community structure in soil microbes. Evolutionary dynamics of plant-microbe interactions, including empirical tests of hypotheses on specialization, trade-offs, speciation and the persistence of mutualisms in the face of “cheaters.”
EDUCATION
PhD. - University of California, Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology, 1997
BS. - University of Florida, Agronomy, 1990
BS. - Yale University, Biology, 1989
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks August 2002 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher with Ellen Simms, UC Berkeley 1999-2002
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow with Scott Hodges, UC Santa Barbara 1997-1999
Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley 1991-1992
Research Fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria 1990-1991
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
AK EPSCoR “T-RFLP exploration of Alaskan microbial diversity: riding WAVE sequence data” $20,000 2002-2003
NSF DEB Ecology “Market dynamics in a nitrogen-fixation mutualism” (Ellen Simms is PI) $150,000 2001-2003
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship 1997-1999
American Orchid Society Graduate Fellowship "An ecological study of orchid mycorrhizae using molecular fungal identification" 1992-1993 |
