The trajectory of climate change depends on the health of forest ecosystems. Trees never exist in isolation, they intimately associate with diverse microbial communities that dwell within roots and leaves. Forests are unimaginable without these exceptionally diverse microbial communities.

I am an NSF Postdoc in the Stanford Department of Biology and the School of Sustainability. I study the ecology of bacteria and fungi inhabiting forest biomes. These microbes regulate forest resiliency in the face of climate change. I investigate microbial physiology and community dynamics in order to incorporate microbial traits and community dynamics into predictive models of future forest function.