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We were pleased to announce the recipients of the O.N. Allen Soil and Environmental Microbiology Small Grants program this summer. Congratulations to the seven student and postdoctoral researchers from five different departments that were selected for funding by a panel of their peers and the acting program officers Thea Whitman and Briana Burton. The award recipients and …

Request For Proposals: O.N. Allen Soil and Environmental Microbiology Small-Grants Program 2019 We are pleased to announce the second year of a small-grant opportunity for UW–Madison graduate students and postdocs studying soil and environmental microbiology, supported by the O.N. Allen professorship in Soil Science, CALS, the WID Multi-Omics Hub, the Department of Plant Pathology, and …

It’s been a busy year! We had our first student graduate (congrats, Christina!), created a small-grants program in soil and environmental microbiology and awarded the first eight grants, welcomed new lab members Jaimie West (Ph.D. program) and Annie Edwards (undergraduate student in Soil Science), brought in new funding for some exciting projects, and, of course, did …

We were pleased to announce the recipients of the O.N. Allen Soil and Environmental Microbiology Small Grants program this summer. Eight proposals with twelve student and postdoctoral researchers from six different departments were selected for funding by a panel of their peers and the acting program officers Thea Whitman and Briana Burton. The award recipients and their …

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 Properties, this August. She has two papers in revision, and is now at North Carolina State for a Ph.D.. Great work, Christina! We will miss you in the lab.    …

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: Addressing misclassification in the microbiome: A data-scientific approach to propagating uncertainty in microbial community composition Institutions: University of Wisconsin–Madison (Dr. Thea Whitman and Dr. Karl Broman) and the University of …

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 postdocs studying soil and environmental microbiology, supported by the O.N. Allen professorship in Soil Science, the WID Multi-Omics Hub, the Department of Plant Pathology, and the Department of Bacteriology. We …

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 – and three undergrads to the lab. We submitted a few proposals and pre-proposals, some internal and some external, and are now working on a big full DOE TES proposal with …

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 Soil Day (5th December). The movie examines climate change through the lens of impacts to native Alaskans, receding glaciers, and arctic soil. Permafrost (permanently frozen ground) in the Arctic and Subarctic …

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 week through a UW–Madison Microbiome Initiative Infrastructure Grant! The Microbiotron proposal was a collaborative effort, with many Co-Is from different departments within the university, including the Jackson, Lankau, Panke-Buisse, and Silva labs, with support …