Welcome
Our research program is housed within the Biology Department at Syracuse University. Our lab also affiliated with the ‘Big Data and Data Analytics’ research cluster at SU – a multidisciplinary group of labs that collaborate on computational questions across genomics, bioinformatics, computer sciences, physics. We aim to understand what mechanisms drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics observed in microbial systems across a range of environments, and the consequences of these relationships on systems-level functions. To address these questions, we use an integrative approach combining large-scale lab and field experiments, functional ‘omics, and modeling. Currently, our work focuses on the ecology and evolution of microbes (including protists!). To learn more, head over to our research page.
Recent Lab News
April, 2024: Congrats to PhD student Rachel Shepherd, who was selected for a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Fellowship and to Beryl Rappaport was awarded an NSF GRFP!
March, 2024: Paper led by PhD student Rachel Shepherd on how micronutrients modulate the structure and function microbiomes just came out here in Soil Biology & Biochemistry.
February, 2024: Pre-print up from Angela’s postdoc work looking at how microbial metabolic networks control methane in wetlands here.
August, 2023: First paper from our lab out in Nature Comms, led by lab member Beryl Rappaport – on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments! Check it out here.
August, 2023: Beryl presented her work on extremophilic amoebae at the New Lineages of Life symposium. (DOE Joint Genome Institute)
August, 2023: New paper out on the spatial and temporal dynamics of urban stream microbiomes using genome-resolved monitoring here.
April, 2023: Congrats to lab members Rachel and Beryl who both presented at the inaugural Finger Lakes Microbiome Symposium (FiLMS). Our lab is looking forward to attending again next year!
June, 2022: Angela was recently awarded a new PI CSP grant through the Joint Genome Institute at DOE along with co-PIs at Yale and Colorado State to obtain metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, and metabolomes from experimental decomposition communities across NEON sites.
For more, see previous lab news