People
Gregory Bonito
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 2009.
Fungal ecology, fungal-plant interactions, evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis.
Email: bonito@msu.edu
Lars Brudvig, Associate Professor
MSU Department: Plant Biology
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2007
Restoration, landscape, and plant ecology
Email: brudvig@plantbiology.msu.edu
Jiquan Chen
MSU Department: Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center
for Global Change and Earth Observations, Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1991
His research and academic instruction programs are on ecosystem processes and their interactive feedbacks to the biophysical and human activities,
Email: jqchen@msu.edu
Kendra S. Cheruvelil
MSU Department: Lyman Briggs/Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2004.
Aquatic ecology, landscape limmology, exotic species, applied ecology, macrophytes.
Email: ksc@msu.edu
Martin Chilvers
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Tasmania, Australia, 2003
Fungal and oomycete biology, epidemiology, genetics, host-pathogen interactions; diseases of field crops; molecular diagnostics
Email: chilvers@msu.edu
Jeffrey K. Conner
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987.
Evolutionary ecology, ecological genetics
Email: connerj@msu.edu
Kyla Dahlin
MSU Department: Geography Environmental Spatial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2012
Quantitative landscape ecology, remote sensing, Earth system modeling, global change
Email: kdahlin@msu.edu
Diane Ebert-May
MSU Department: Plant Biology, University
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Science education; plant ecology
Email: ebertmay@msu.edu
Patrick Edger
MSU Department: Horticulture, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2012.
Phylogenomics, Comparative Functional Genomics, Systems Biology
Email: edgerpat@msu.edu
Sarah E. Evans
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2012.
Microbial community ecology, ecosystems, global change.
Email: evanssa6@msu.edu
Andrew O. Finley
MSU Department: Forestry, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2006.
Methodology for monitoring and modeling environmental processes; Bayesian statistics; spatial statistics; and statistical computing.
Email: finleya@msu.edu
Matthew Grieshop
MSU Department: Entomology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2005.
Community and population ecology, animal behavior.
Email: grieshop@msu.edu
Katherine L. Gross
MSU Department: Plant Biology, University Distinguished
Professor of Plant Biology
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1980.
Plant population and community ecology.
Email: kgross@kbs.msu.edu
Nick Haddad
MSU Department: Integrative Biology and the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1997
Nick is an ecologist and conservation biologist. His research is in long-term experiments focused on habitat conservation and restoration. He is lead Principal Investigator for the 30-year old Long-Term Ecological Research program at the Kellogg Biological Station.
Email: haddadn3@msu.edu
Stephen K. Hamilton
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994.
Biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology.
Email: hamilton@kbs.msu.edu
Fredric Janzen
MSU Department: Fisheries and Wildlife and W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
Professor and Director
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992
Evolutionary ecology, phenotypic selection, evolutionary genetics, and conservation biology
Email: janzenf1@msu.edu
Andrew M. Jarosz
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984
Evolutionary ecology of plant-pathogen interactions
Email: amjarosz@msu.edu
Emily Josephs
MSU Department: Department of Plant Biology
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2016
The lab is broadly interested in understanding how various evolutionary forces, like drift and selection, shape patterns of genetic variation and trait variation in natural and domesticated plant species.
Email: josep993@msu.edu
Christopher Klausmeier
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000
Theoretical and aquatic ecology
Email: klausme1@msu.edu
Richard K. Kobe
MSU Department: Forestry, Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1995
Forest ecology
Email: kobe@msu.edu
Elena Litchman
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, MSU Foundation Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997
Ecology and evolution of phytoplankton & other microbes, community ecology, aquatic ecology
Email: litchman@msu.edu
Kevin Liu
MSU Department: Computer Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2011
The Liu Lab creates new computational methodologies for efficient and accurate comparative genomic analyses, especially in the context of complex evolutionary scenarios.
Email: kjl@msu.edu
David Lowry
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 2010
Plant Evolutionary Genomics, Adaptation, and Speciation
Email: dlowry@msu.edu
Carolyn M. Malmström
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
Ecosystem & landscape dynamics, restoration ecology, remote sensing
Email: carolynm@msu.edu
Jessica R. Miesel
MSU Departments: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Forestry, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009
Fire ecology, forest ecology and management; restoration ecology; biogeochemistry; intersections between ecology and environmental justice
Email: mieselje@msu.edu
Eric Patterson
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2018
Weed Genomics, Genome Evolution, Herbicide Resistance Evolution, Genetics of Abiotic Stress Tolerence.
Email: patte543@msu.edu
L. Alan Prather
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Director of MSU Herbarium
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1995
Plant systematics and evolution of floral morphology
Email: alan@msu.edu
John D. Robinson
MSU Department: FIsheries and WIldlife, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2011
Research Interests: Population and conservation genetics, demographic inference
Organisms: Freshwater and marine invertebrates, fish, plants
E-mail: jdrob@msu.edu
Monique Sakalidis
MSU Department: Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 2011
Research focuses on the use of genomic tools in conjunction with traditional pathology tools to mitigate and respond to forest tree diseases (detection, identification, pathogenicity and population analysis), emerging endemic and exotic invasive pathogens.
E-mail: sakalidi@msu.edu
Shin-Han Shiu
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001
Evolution of Genomes
Email: shius@msu.edu
Sieglinde S. Snapp
MSU Department: Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Professor
Ph.D., California, Davis, 1991.
Managed ecosystems and agricultural ecology.
E-mail: snapp@msu.edu
R. Jan Stevenson
MSU Department: Integrative Biology
Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981
Algal ecology; aquatic ecology; environmental science
Email: rjstev@msu.edu
Zsofia Szendrei
MSU Department: Entomology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2005
Insect ecology, chemical ecology, biocontrol
Email: szendrei@msu.edu
Frank W. Telewski
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Professor
Ph.D., Wake Forest University, 1983
Developmental tree ecophysiology
Email: telewski@msu.edu
Marjorie Weber
MSU Department: Plant Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014
The ecology and macroevolution of plant-arthropod interactions.
Email: weberm11@msu.edu
William Wetzel
MSU Departments: Entomology and Integrative Biology, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2015
Population and community ecology, plant-insect interactions, quantitative ecology.
Email: wcwetzel@msu.edu
Phoebe Zarnetske
MSU Department: Integrative Biology, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2011
Community ecology, spatial ecology, climate change, species distribution modeling, ecosystem services, invasive species
Email: plz@msu.edu