Postdoctoral Research Associates & Academic Staff

Department: KBS/ LTER Science Coordinator

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, agroecology

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Anne Bronikowski

Research Interests: Ecological developmental biology, ecophysiology, and evolutionary ecology

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Chris Kozakiewicz

Research Interests: Transdisciplinarity, Macroecology, Conservation

Department: Plant Biology, EEB Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Conner

Research Interests: Plant evolutionary biology, trait adaptation, phenotypic plasticity

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Christine Sprunger

Research Interests: Nematology, microbial ecology, agroecology, soil health

Department: EEB Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Fitzpatrick

Research Interests: Evolution, sexual selection, animal behavior

Department: EEB Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Fredric Janzen, Elise Zipkin

Research Interests: I am a community ecologist interested in bridging macroecology and macroevolution to understand the distribution of biodiversity. As the MSU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB), I am investigating how ecological and evolutionary processes shape global patterns of avian ecological strategies.

Department: Kellogg Biological Station, ICER Bioinformatics Core. Research Specialist, Bioinformatics Consultant

Research Interests: Evolutionary and computational biology, population and statistical genomics, conservation.

Department: Plant Biology Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Kadeem Gilbert

Research Interests: Modulation of pH under external pH changes at transcriptional level, plant transcriptional regulation and carbon metabolism

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Evans

Research Interests: Soil microbiome, below and above ground interactions, and their interplay with climate change

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Evans

Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, effects of environmental stress, roles of abruscular mycorrhizal fungi and other symbiotic microorganisms, nutrient acquisition, and resilience in bioenergy crops

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Alisha Shah

Research Interests: Overwintering aquatic insects, climate change, under ice ecology and physiology, dragonflies

Department: EEB/KBS/Integrative Biology Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Fitzpatrick, Nick Haddad

Research Interests: Conservation genomics, genetic rescue, rapid evolution, urban adaptation, thermal physiology

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Christine Sprunger

Research Interests: Nematode ecology, Nematode as soil health indicator, Agroecology

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Fitzpatrick

Research Interests: Population Genomics, Selection, Evolution

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Christine Sprunger

Research Interests: Soil health, deep soil, agroecology, plant-microbe interactions, carbon-nitrogen dynamics, omics

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Nick Haddad, Sarah Evans, and Christine Sprunger

Research Interests: global change ecology/mutualisms/theoretical ecology/community ecology/spatial ecology

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Chris Kozakiewicz

Research Interests: Wildlife, disease ecology, ornithology, One Health

Department: KBS / LTER Education & Outreach Coordinator

Research Interests: science education, DBER, plant biology, data literacy, invasive species

Department: KBS Associate Director for Engagement for Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR)

Research Interests: sustainable agriculture, soil health, participatory research

Department: Kellogg Biological Station Postdoctoral Research Associate

Faculty Sponsor: Chris Klausmeier

Research Interests: Eco-evolutionary dynamics, spatial evolutionary dynamics, trait-based modeling, evolutionarily stable communities

Department: KBS LTAR Associate Director for Agronomy and Science

Research Interests: Cropping System Innovations, Agroecology, Cover Crops, Small Grains