July 2023 - We welcome Julia to our laboratory. She is a postdoctoral researcher working on wetland methane emissions.
June 2023 - Jordan and Laibin published great papers about their research. Check them out: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment and Environment Science & Technology, respectively. Congratulations to both on your hard work!
April 2023 - Eno and Grace presented their research work at the UC Davis Undergraduate Conference. Wonderful job!
April 2023 - David received the prestigious USDA/NIFA Fellowship.
Amazing accomplishment.
April 2023 - We would like to welcome Mavis and Aaron to our lab!
Mar 2023 - Dr. Jordan Sayre our most sincere congratulations on
your wonderful Dissertation seminar. Well done Dr. Sayre!
Feb 2023 - Three new publications from our research in high profile journals:
Trends in Microbiology, Communications Biology, and Molecular Ecology.
Thanks to the hard work of our students and collaborators!
Feb 2023 - Two new publications from our research in high profile journals:
Trends in Microbiology and Communications Biology.
Feb 2023 - Congratulations Dr. Danielson! Rachel received her well-deserved Doctor of Philosophy degree with flying colors.
Jan 2023 - New publication from our collaboration with Dr. Dahlke's group. Congratulations to Elad. Keep an eye for an exciting paper from Laibin soon.
September 2022 - Eno and Danilo, welcome to UC Davis and our lab! We are honored to have you both here with us.
July 2022 - Dr. Jonathan Lin gave an amazing PhD exit seminar! Way to go, Jon!
July 2022 - Lots of new publications from our lab: Advances in Agronomy, Applied Soil Ecology, Environmental Research,
Science of the Total Environment.
June 2022 - Liyuan, congratulations on your PhD graduation. Amazing PhD work!
March 2022 - We welcome Grace and Cynthia to our lab!
April 2021 - Welcome Zeke to our lab! Zeke is a Junior Specialist working on Soil Health in California.
Jan 2021 - We have a new member joining our team: Christian, a Microbiology PhD student. Welcome to our lab!
Jan 2021 - New publication from our lab on soil C changes in the Amazon. Congratulations, Ademir. We also have another publication in the prestigious ISME J.
December 2020 - LEAPS - Leadership Excellence Across Practice and Sciences. If you are applying for Graduate School, you should check this out! Funds are available for selected students: https://soilecogenomicslabs.weebly.com/leaps.html
December 2020 - We are celebrating World Soil Day (Dec 05)!
November 2020 - We have some two new exciting publications to share: one in the ISME Journal and the other in Nature Biotechnology. Soil Microbiomes rule!
September 2020 - Great new publications: Environment International (Meyer), Soil Biology & Biochemistry (He), mSystems (Allard).
April 2020 - New publication with Jennifer Schmidt and Amelie Gaudin. Great research on rhizobiomes.
March 2020 - New publication from our lab in AEM. Congratulations, Babur!
Feb 2020 - New publication in the journal Waste Management in collaboration with Dr. Melanie Sattler (University of Texas at Arlington). Congratulations Hoda!
Jan 2020 - Our lab is a participating member of a new project to link soil genomics to forest ecological data. EMERGENT - Ecological Metagenome-derived Reference Genomes and Traits (https://lternet.edu/working-groups/emergent/).
Jan 2020 - We welcome Dr. Laibin Huang into our research group!
Jan 2020 - Jordan published a paper with Dr. Albert Barberan's group (U. Arizona) on the topic of restoring sand dunes in California. Congrats, Jordan.
Oct 2019 - We welcome Lucas Wang to the lab. He is a visiting PhD student from the prestigious Zhejiang University. Welcome Lucas!
Jun 2019 - Jonathan won the Jastro Award.
Mar 2019 - Rachel won the NIFA Fellowship. Congratulations on this well deserved recognition!
Jan 2019 - Rachel won the Soil Science Society of America - Soil Biology and Biochemistry Short Presentation Award.
Oct 2018 - Jonathan passed his Qualifying Exam. He did an great job defending his research plans.
Oct 2018 - Rachel won the Lloyd Brown Award for her research accomplisments.
Oct 2018 - Alex, Liyuan, and Joao are joining our lab this Fall. Welcome everyone!
Oct 2018 - Jordan was selected for the prestigeous Advanced School of Methane Sciences. Well deserved!
Aug 2018 - Our DOE/JGI - Community Science Program 2019 proposal was selected for meta'omics sequencing.
June 2018 - Yulissa Rojas, an UC LEADS undegraduate has been working in our lab. She is doing a great job!
Apr 2018 - Stride for Aggie Pride 5K. Lab was well represented by the 4Js: Jonathan, Jorge, Jordan and Julio.
Apr 2018 - Rachel passed her Qualifying Exam. She did an excellent presentation. Well deserved.
Apr 2018 - Sung and Carlotta presented at the 29th UC Davis Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference. They did a great job!
Jan 2018 - Sung Won and Carlotta received the prestigious Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award. Congrats to both!
Oct 2017 - Our own Dennis Goss had his paper published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology selected as Editor's choice.
Oct 2017 - Rachel's paper published in the SSSAJ was recognized as the Editor's choice. Excellent work about resilience of microbial communities after timber harvest. Congrats Rachel and her former advisor Dr. Myrold .
Sept 2017 - Julio Fornezier Moreira, a PhD student in Dr. Marcio Lambais' Lab, will be working with us on phylosphere microbial communities, a very exciting project. Welcome to the lab, Julio.
Sept 2017 - Jordan passed his Qualification Exam with flying color. We are proud of you Jordan!
Sept 2017 - Sung Won welcome to the lab!
Sept 2017 - Jonathan just wrote a great piece on Robert Hungate, the Grandpa of Anaerobic Microbiology for the ASM blog Small Things Considered. Check it out!
Aug 2017 - Jonathan participated in the highly prestigious Woods Hole Microbial Diversity Course. Photo op. with Dr. John Breznak, simply one of the best microbial physiologist of our times, a great mentor, and a friend.
Aug 2017 - Babur is now an Assistant Professor at Missouri State University. Lots of success ahead!
July 2017 - Carlotta, Fernanda and Alexandre are new members of our lab. A big welcome to you!
May 2017 - Albert just moved to University of Arizona, where he will be taking an Assistant
Professor position. We wish him all the best in the next phase of his career.
April 2017 - March for Science in Sacramento. We believe in Null Hypothesis and Alternative Hypothesis, but only in True Facts.
March 2017 - We welcome Eloi Parlade (University of Barcelona) to our lab!
March 2017 - "Uncovering the Hidden Life of Soil" - News about soil microbiology research at UC Davis.
January 2017 - Two great publications about forests: One in China (Bin - mSystems) and one in Brazil (Meyer- Molecular Ecology).
December 2016 - We welcome Dr. Nipon Pisutpaisal to our lab! Nipon is an Associate Professor in
King Mongkut's University Technology North Bangkok. He is also a Fulbright
Scholar visiting UC Davis. We are honored to have him working with us.
December 2016 - Malini can now be referred as Dr. Kotak! Her guidance committee was impressed
with her extensive comparative analyses of microbial genomes and
exciting new findings!
Wadud is now Dr. Khan! Congratulations on your well deserved PhD defense on
microbial networks. Good job, guys!
August 2016 - We welcome Jonathan to our lab!
August 2016 - New publication: Trends in Microbiology. Take a look at the Microbiome Working Group's Opinion.
May 2016 - George H. congrats on your new publication (Applied Soil Ecology)!
April 2016 - Dai welcome to the lab! Off to a great start with new publications!
March 2016 - Two new publications have been accepted: [1] Generalist fungi in the Amazon! and
[2] A novel bacteriophage cassette in Burkholderia. Congratulations to
Nid and Becky!
February 2016 - We welcome Albert and Luana to our lab!
January 2016 - Great news! Kate Scow's lab (LAWR), Amelie Gaudin's lab (Plant Sciences) and our
lab received an USDA award to work with CA farmers.
Thanks to Kate's leadership!
December 2015 - New publication about Acidobacteria biogeography in the Amazon!
October 2015 - We welcome Rachel to the lab!
July 2015 - We welcome Ademir to the lab!
July 2015 - New publication: Frontiers of Microbiology - Verrucomicrobia in Amazon soils!
March 2015 - We welcome Jordan to the lab!
March 2015 - Malini published a Genome Annoucement about the Verrucomicrobium strain TAV5. Congratulations, Malini!
October 2014 - Welcome Dennis! He is a visiting PhD student, working on land use change in the
south of Brazil.
September 2014 - NSF Press release and NSF Biology tweet about our project in the Amazon.
September 2014 - WE MOVED TO UC DAVIS! Now our lab is located in the
Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.
June 2023 - Jordan and Laibin published great papers about their research. Check them out: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment and Environment Science & Technology, respectively. Congratulations to both on your hard work!
April 2023 - Eno and Grace presented their research work at the UC Davis Undergraduate Conference. Wonderful job!
April 2023 - David received the prestigious USDA/NIFA Fellowship.
Amazing accomplishment.
April 2023 - We would like to welcome Mavis and Aaron to our lab!
Mar 2023 - Dr. Jordan Sayre our most sincere congratulations on
your wonderful Dissertation seminar. Well done Dr. Sayre!
Feb 2023 - Three new publications from our research in high profile journals:
Trends in Microbiology, Communications Biology, and Molecular Ecology.
Thanks to the hard work of our students and collaborators!
Feb 2023 - Two new publications from our research in high profile journals:
Trends in Microbiology and Communications Biology.
Feb 2023 - Congratulations Dr. Danielson! Rachel received her well-deserved Doctor of Philosophy degree with flying colors.
Jan 2023 - New publication from our collaboration with Dr. Dahlke's group. Congratulations to Elad. Keep an eye for an exciting paper from Laibin soon.
September 2022 - Eno and Danilo, welcome to UC Davis and our lab! We are honored to have you both here with us.
July 2022 - Dr. Jonathan Lin gave an amazing PhD exit seminar! Way to go, Jon!
July 2022 - Lots of new publications from our lab: Advances in Agronomy, Applied Soil Ecology, Environmental Research,
Science of the Total Environment.
June 2022 - Liyuan, congratulations on your PhD graduation. Amazing PhD work!
March 2022 - We welcome Grace and Cynthia to our lab!
April 2021 - Welcome Zeke to our lab! Zeke is a Junior Specialist working on Soil Health in California.
Jan 2021 - We have a new member joining our team: Christian, a Microbiology PhD student. Welcome to our lab!
Jan 2021 - New publication from our lab on soil C changes in the Amazon. Congratulations, Ademir. We also have another publication in the prestigious ISME J.
December 2020 - LEAPS - Leadership Excellence Across Practice and Sciences. If you are applying for Graduate School, you should check this out! Funds are available for selected students: https://soilecogenomicslabs.weebly.com/leaps.html
December 2020 - We are celebrating World Soil Day (Dec 05)!
November 2020 - We have some two new exciting publications to share: one in the ISME Journal and the other in Nature Biotechnology. Soil Microbiomes rule!
September 2020 - Great new publications: Environment International (Meyer), Soil Biology & Biochemistry (He), mSystems (Allard).
April 2020 - New publication with Jennifer Schmidt and Amelie Gaudin. Great research on rhizobiomes.
March 2020 - New publication from our lab in AEM. Congratulations, Babur!
Feb 2020 - New publication in the journal Waste Management in collaboration with Dr. Melanie Sattler (University of Texas at Arlington). Congratulations Hoda!
Jan 2020 - Our lab is a participating member of a new project to link soil genomics to forest ecological data. EMERGENT - Ecological Metagenome-derived Reference Genomes and Traits (https://lternet.edu/working-groups/emergent/).
Jan 2020 - We welcome Dr. Laibin Huang into our research group!
Jan 2020 - Jordan published a paper with Dr. Albert Barberan's group (U. Arizona) on the topic of restoring sand dunes in California. Congrats, Jordan.
Oct 2019 - We welcome Lucas Wang to the lab. He is a visiting PhD student from the prestigious Zhejiang University. Welcome Lucas!
Jun 2019 - Jonathan won the Jastro Award.
Mar 2019 - Rachel won the NIFA Fellowship. Congratulations on this well deserved recognition!
Jan 2019 - Rachel won the Soil Science Society of America - Soil Biology and Biochemistry Short Presentation Award.
Oct 2018 - Jonathan passed his Qualifying Exam. He did an great job defending his research plans.
Oct 2018 - Rachel won the Lloyd Brown Award for her research accomplisments.
Oct 2018 - Alex, Liyuan, and Joao are joining our lab this Fall. Welcome everyone!
Oct 2018 - Jordan was selected for the prestigeous Advanced School of Methane Sciences. Well deserved!
Aug 2018 - Our DOE/JGI - Community Science Program 2019 proposal was selected for meta'omics sequencing.
June 2018 - Yulissa Rojas, an UC LEADS undegraduate has been working in our lab. She is doing a great job!
Apr 2018 - Stride for Aggie Pride 5K. Lab was well represented by the 4Js: Jonathan, Jorge, Jordan and Julio.
Apr 2018 - Rachel passed her Qualifying Exam. She did an excellent presentation. Well deserved.
Apr 2018 - Sung and Carlotta presented at the 29th UC Davis Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference. They did a great job!
Jan 2018 - Sung Won and Carlotta received the prestigious Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award. Congrats to both!
Oct 2017 - Our own Dennis Goss had his paper published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology selected as Editor's choice.
Oct 2017 - Rachel's paper published in the SSSAJ was recognized as the Editor's choice. Excellent work about resilience of microbial communities after timber harvest. Congrats Rachel and her former advisor Dr. Myrold .
Sept 2017 - Julio Fornezier Moreira, a PhD student in Dr. Marcio Lambais' Lab, will be working with us on phylosphere microbial communities, a very exciting project. Welcome to the lab, Julio.
Sept 2017 - Jordan passed his Qualification Exam with flying color. We are proud of you Jordan!
Sept 2017 - Sung Won welcome to the lab!
Sept 2017 - Jonathan just wrote a great piece on Robert Hungate, the Grandpa of Anaerobic Microbiology for the ASM blog Small Things Considered. Check it out!
Aug 2017 - Jonathan participated in the highly prestigious Woods Hole Microbial Diversity Course. Photo op. with Dr. John Breznak, simply one of the best microbial physiologist of our times, a great mentor, and a friend.
Aug 2017 - Babur is now an Assistant Professor at Missouri State University. Lots of success ahead!
July 2017 - Carlotta, Fernanda and Alexandre are new members of our lab. A big welcome to you!
May 2017 - Albert just moved to University of Arizona, where he will be taking an Assistant
Professor position. We wish him all the best in the next phase of his career.
April 2017 - March for Science in Sacramento. We believe in Null Hypothesis and Alternative Hypothesis, but only in True Facts.
March 2017 - We welcome Eloi Parlade (University of Barcelona) to our lab!
March 2017 - "Uncovering the Hidden Life of Soil" - News about soil microbiology research at UC Davis.
January 2017 - Two great publications about forests: One in China (Bin - mSystems) and one in Brazil (Meyer- Molecular Ecology).
December 2016 - We welcome Dr. Nipon Pisutpaisal to our lab! Nipon is an Associate Professor in
King Mongkut's University Technology North Bangkok. He is also a Fulbright
Scholar visiting UC Davis. We are honored to have him working with us.
December 2016 - Malini can now be referred as Dr. Kotak! Her guidance committee was impressed
with her extensive comparative analyses of microbial genomes and
exciting new findings!
Wadud is now Dr. Khan! Congratulations on your well deserved PhD defense on
microbial networks. Good job, guys!
August 2016 - We welcome Jonathan to our lab!
August 2016 - New publication: Trends in Microbiology. Take a look at the Microbiome Working Group's Opinion.
May 2016 - George H. congrats on your new publication (Applied Soil Ecology)!
April 2016 - Dai welcome to the lab! Off to a great start with new publications!
March 2016 - Two new publications have been accepted: [1] Generalist fungi in the Amazon! and
[2] A novel bacteriophage cassette in Burkholderia. Congratulations to
Nid and Becky!
February 2016 - We welcome Albert and Luana to our lab!
January 2016 - Great news! Kate Scow's lab (LAWR), Amelie Gaudin's lab (Plant Sciences) and our
lab received an USDA award to work with CA farmers.
Thanks to Kate's leadership!
December 2015 - New publication about Acidobacteria biogeography in the Amazon!
October 2015 - We welcome Rachel to the lab!
July 2015 - We welcome Ademir to the lab!
July 2015 - New publication: Frontiers of Microbiology - Verrucomicrobia in Amazon soils!
March 2015 - We welcome Jordan to the lab!
March 2015 - Malini published a Genome Annoucement about the Verrucomicrobium strain TAV5. Congratulations, Malini!
October 2014 - Welcome Dennis! He is a visiting PhD student, working on land use change in the
south of Brazil.
September 2014 - NSF Press release and NSF Biology tweet about our project in the Amazon.
September 2014 - WE MOVED TO UC DAVIS! Now our lab is located in the
Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.
