Lauren Sielski – Lauren works with Dana processing and analyzing soil samples from areas impacted by wildfires in Wood Buffalo National Park and the Northwest Territories in Canada. She enjoys hiking, completing puzzles, and eating goldfish.

Elias Kemna – Eli worked with Tim to isolate and sequence PyOM degrading bacteria. He also worked on designing a media that consistently cultures hard-to-culture or “unculturable” soil bacteria.

Alexa Hanson – Alexa worked with Jaimie on the microaggregate and community assembly project, helping with soil sampling, fractionation, and soil analysis.

Kallysa Taylor – Kallysa worked with Jaimie on the microaggregate and community assembly project, helping with soil sampling and fractionation. She is also helped with a soil pH project.

Teresita Cordova – Teresita formerly worked with Miranda to analyze 5-years post-fire Canadian boreal forest soil samples.

Emma Johnson –  Emma worked with Jaimie on the microaggregate and community assembly project, helping with soil sampling and fractionation.

Isabelle Bartholomew – Isabelle worked with Jaimie on the microaggregate and community assembly project, helping with soil sampling and fractionation.

Judith Tafur – As her Undergraduate Research Scholars project, Judith works with Miranda to investigate the effect of wildfires on soil pH using samples from Wood Buffalo National Park and the Northwest Territories in Canada. She enjoys cooking, swimming, and being outdoors. 

Mai Zoua Yang – MZ worked with Tim and Jamie on isolating, characterizing, and sequencing bacteria that can consume PyOM.

Anna Scheuneman – Anna worked on the PyOM bacteria project.

Oskar Nordlie – Oskar worked on the PyOM bacteria project.

Annie Edwards – Annie worked with Mike on developing an isolation plate inspired by the iChip for improving our ability to isolate soil bacteria.

Kristin McAdow (co-advised with Doug Soldat)

Kristin worked in our lab while a senior, studying Botany and Conservation Biology and researching microbial community structure in lead (Pb) contaminated soils remediated with phosphorus amendments. She likes gardening, reading, being outside, and eating too many treats.

Lindsey Blanchfield- Lindsey worked with Isabella researching the impact of multiple fires and contemporary fire severity on soils in northern California. Originally from California, Lindsey came to Wisconsin to study Biological Systems Engineering with a focus on food and bioprocessing and is passionate about sustainability and green energy.