Congratulations to Christina on successfully defending her M.S. thesis, Prescribed Burning Effects on Jack Pine from High and Low Serotiny Regions: Microbial interactions and Soil […]

We’ve been selected for funding through the UW-Madison data science initiative for a new project and are recruiting a postdoc. Come join our team! Project: […]

Request For Proposals: O.N. Allen Soil and Environmental Microbiology Small-Grants Program 2018 We are pleased to announce a small-grant opportunity for UW-Madison graduate students and […]

It was a busy fall semester in the Whitman Lab. We’ve grown, welcoming Nayela Zeba – our new PhD student on the DOE PyOM project – […]

World Soil Day 5th December – Movie “Between Earth and Sky” The Department of Soil Science will screen the movie “Between Earth and Sky” on World […]

We are excited to announce that our proposal, The UW-Madison Microbiotron: A modular experimental platform to crack open the plant-soil-microbe black box, was funded this past […]

We had a beautiful day for an Annex potluck / firepit out at UW Madison’s scenic Picnic Point!

The UW-Madison Department of Soil Science is pleased to welcome David Montgomery, professor at U Washington, and author of Dirt: Erosion of Civilizations, The Hidden Half […]

Recruiting: Ph.D. student Project: Systems biology enabled research on the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycle processes – Determination of the roles of pyrophilous microbes in […]

We had a great full-team DOE project meeting in Berkeley last week, after the JGI user meeting. We discussed our results so far, got to […]