Lennon Lab: Microbial Ecology and Evolution

We are interested in the ecological and evolutionary factors that generate and maintain microbial biodiversity.

In turn, we seek to understand the implications of microbial diversity for ecosystem functioning.

The Lennon Lab is in the Department of Biology at Indiana University

Visit our lab website for publications along with a description of people, research, and teaching.

Data and code for some of our projects can be found on GitHub

You can follow the Lennon Lab on Twitter

News

2020

• Lab receives NSF Bridging Ecology and Evolution award to study bacteria-phage evolution with Daniel Schwartz and Joshua Weitz
• Lab receives NASA Exobiology funding to study energetics and evolution of dormancy
• "Microbial community assembly in a multi-layer dendritic metacommunity" led by Nathan available as bioRxiv Preprint
• "More evidence for Earth's massive microbiome" to appear in Biology Direct
• "Dormancy dampens the microbial distance-decay relationship" to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• "Metabolic insight into bacterial community assembly across ecosystem boundaries" led by Nathan published in Ecology
• Jay gives opening talk on "Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation" in Sandbjerg, Denmark
• Jay lectures at the Microbial Diversity course at the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole
• Lab organizing and presenting in symposia at ASM Microbe in Chicago
• "Low costs of adaptation to dietary restriction" led by Roy now available as bioRxiv preprint
• Jay lectures in "Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Communities Program" at Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP)
• Jay gives seminar at Dartmouth College's Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society Program
• Jay gives seminar at University of Florida's Department of Biology
• "Microbial rescue effects: how microbiomes can save hosts from extinction" led by Emmi published in Functional Ecology

2019

• Jay elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
• On the cover, "Microbial aging and longevity" with Roy Moger-Reischer published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
• Jay talks about "microbial rescue effects" at NSF sponsored workshop on Deciphering the Microbiome
• "Metabolic insight into bacterial community assembly across ecosystem boundaries" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Jay lectures in "Evolutionary consequences of dormancy" workshop at the Berlin Institute of Technology
• Lab presents research at the Ecological Society of America meetings in Louisville, Kentucky
• "Dormancy dampens the microbial distance-decay relationship" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Jay lectures at the Microbial Diversity course at the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole
• Emmi presents research at Purudue Microbiome Symposium
• Quanta magazine covers lab's research on seed banks
• "Dormancy in metacommunities" led by Nathan and with Mathew Leibold published in The American Naturalist
• "Microbial dormancy improves predictability of soil respiration at the seasonal time scale" published in Biogeochemistry
• Emmi receives Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• "Microbial rescue effects: how microbiomes can save hosts from extinction" available as an OSF Preprint
• "Resource heterogeneity structures aquatic bacterial communities" with Mario Muscarella published in ISMEJ
• "Nutrient stoichiometry shapes microbial coevolution" published in Ecology Letters
• "A residence time theory for biodiversity" published in The American Naturalist

2018

• Jay elected AAAS Fellow
• "Macroecology to unite all life, large and small" published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• "There are more microbial species on Earth than stars in the galaxy" in Aeon
• Jay gives Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology at University of Wisconsin in Department of Bacteriology
• "Trait-based approach to bacterial growth efficiency" available as bioRxiv preprint
• "Microbial dormancy improves predictability of soil respiration" preprint in bioRxiv
• "Diversity and composition of cave methanotrophic communities" preprint in bioRxiv
• Jay gives seminar in Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology at Penn State
• "Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit" published in Nature Microbiology'
• Jay gives talk in microbiome seminar series at Purdue University
• "A residence time theory for biodiversity" is available as a PeerJ Preprint
• "Resource diversity structures aquatic bacterial communities" available as bioRxiv preprint
• EarthArXiv preprint on radiolysis and methane oxidation now published in PLOS ONE
• Congratulations to Ken who will be starting a professorship at Diné College in the fall!
• Lab receives IUCRG award to study gut microbiomes with Engineering and Medical School
• "How, when, and where relic DNA affects microbial diversity" published in mBio
• Daniel and Roy participate in Workshop on Molecular Evolution at the MBL
• Jay lectures in Microbial Diversity course at the MBL
• Jay lectures in Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures (STAMPS) course af the MBL
• Jay and Kathleen Treseder organize ASM Microbe symposium on microbial traits
• Venus presents research on resuscitating microbial seed banks at ESA meetings in New Orleans
• Will presents on global biodiversity estimates at Theory in Biology Meeting in Boston
• Nathan presents work on dispersal and dormancy across boundaries at ASLO meeting in Victoria
• Will present work on dormancy and adaptive evolution at PEQG Conference Madison in Madison.
• Nathan presents work on seed bank bacterioplankton dynamics at Society for Freshwater Science in Detroit.
• "Dormancy in metacommunities" led by Nathan and with Mathew Leibold available as OSF preprint
• Will receives Graduate Research Excellent Grant–Rosemary Grant Advanced award (GREG-RGA) from SSE
• Jay participates in the Madison Microbiome Meeting (M3)
• Jay gives plenary at Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC)
• "Evolution with a seed bank" led by Will published in Evolutionary Applications
• "Evolutionary determinants of genome-wide nucleotide composition" published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
• Jordan Bird joins Lennon Lab and McKinlay Lab to work on energy limitation and bacterial evolution

2017

• "Nutrient stoichiometry shapes microbial coevolution" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Will receives NASA Astrobiology Early Career Collaboration Award
• Jay gives seminar in Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
• PNAS Commentary with Jen Lau and Katy Heath: Trees harness the power of microbes to survive climate change
• Jay gives seminar at Odum School of Ecology at University of Georgia
• Jay attends iDiv workshop on "Comparing microbial and macrobial patterns of biodiversity" in Leipzig, Germany
• Jay gives talk at Soil Metagenomics Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory
• Jay gives seminar in the Department of Microbiology at University of Tennessee
• Welcome to Kenzie Givens who joins the lab as a research technician!
• Welcome to Emmi Mueller who joins the lab as Ph.D. student!
• Welcome to Daniel Schwartz who joins the lab as a postdoc!
• Welcome to Jessica Zellinger and Cari Rice who join the lab as undergaduate researchers!
• "A macroecological theory of microbial biodiversity" with Ken and Will published in Nature Ecology and Evolution
• Lab receives funding from Army Research Office to connect phenotype to genotype in evolved prokaryotic populations
• Lab presents multiple projects at the Ecological Society of America meetings in Portland
• Jay gives talk at GRC Microbial Population Biology in Andover, New Hampshire
• See video with Megan on her use of computing clusters to understand microbial evolution.
• Jay gives talk at GRC Applied and Environmental Microbiology in South Hadley, Massachusetts
• With Chris Craft Lab in SPEA, lab receives Joint Genome Institute support to study sea level rise on wetland microbes
• Will gives talk at Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution on contribution of dormancy to microbial evolution
• Jay gives talk at ASM Microbe in session on "Eco-evo feed backs in microbial communities"
• "Relic DNA contributes minimally to estimates of microbial diversity" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Paper on subterranean methane oxidation published in Chemical Geology
• "Multi-scale ecological filters shape the crayfish microbiome" published in Symbiosis
• Jay attends workshop on Marine Viruses - Continuum of Persistence in Cascais, Portugal
• Quarterly Review of Biology by Roy and Jay on The Human Superorganism
• Venus presents research at the Microbiome Center Research Symposium at the University of Chicago
• Jay gives seminar in the Department of Biology at University of Idaho
• Mollie receives Huttons Honor College grant to study host-phage evolutionary ecology
• "A modeling platform for the simultaneous emergence of ecological patterns" with Ken now available as a PeerJ Preprint
• Three postdoc positions in microbial evolution available.
• Will organizes Foundations in Science and Mathematics Summer Courses for high school students at IU on Our Evolving World
• Megan receives Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Will receives grant from Society for Study of Evolution to develop course in evolutionary biology for Indiana high school students
• We are teaching Quantitative Biodiversity again; check it out on GitHub
• "A residence-time framework for biodiversity" with Ken Locey now available as a PeerJ Preprint
• "Microscale insight into microbial seed banks" published in Frontiers in Microbiology with Ken Locey and Melany Fisk
• "Macroecology for microbiology" published in Environmental Microbiology
• Kevin's work on isotopic evidence for the migration of thermogenic methane to appear in Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
• "Microbial mutualism dynamics governed by dose-dependent toxicity of cross-fed nutrients" published in ISMEJ

2016

• Congratulations to Megan, Mario, and Kevin on successfully defending their Ph.D. dissertations!
• Congratulations to Will and Nathan on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
• "Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity" in PNAS. Summary of media coverage and Altmetric
• Kevin and Jay give talks at AGU in "Microbiological Approaches to Understand Ecosystem Processes"
• Ken receives the Tom Brock Award from the International Society for Microbial Ecology
• Jay gives seminar in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at University of Minnesota
• "Underestimation of global microbial diversity" published in mBio
• Jay gives seminar in the Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University
• Jay gives seminar in the Department of Biology at Hope College
• Jay gives talk at National Academies meeting on "Microbiomes of the Built Environment: From Research to Application"
• Jay gives talk in Biodiversity Seminar Series at University of British Columbia
• Roy and Jay present research at BIOCRUST3 in Moab, Utah
• Jay gives seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT
• Jay spends time in Woods Hole at the Biological Laboratory (MBL) as Whitman Associate
• "Microbial contributions to subterranean methane sinks" published in Geobiology'
• Lab presents research at International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) meetings in Montreal
• "Reply to Willis: Powerful predictions of biodiversity from ecological models and scaling laws" in PNAS
• "Microscale insight into microbial seed banks" available as PeerJ Preprint
• Venus attends EDAMAME workshop at Michigan State University
• "Underestimation of global microbial diversity" available as PeerJ Preprint
• "A unifying ecological theory of microbial biodiversity" available as PeerJ Preprint
• "Phosphorus release from the drying and reflooding of diverse shallow sediments" published in Biogeochemistry
• "Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit: insight from ecosystem ecology" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Mario goes to Hawaii to participate in the C-MORE Eco-DAS Symposium
• "A trait based approach to bacterial biofilms in soil" published in Environmental Microbiology
• Nathan helps lead effort in LTER synthesis group on metacommunities
• "Bacterial dormancy is more prevalent in freshwater than hypersaline lakes" published in Frontiers in Microbiology
• Mario attends the Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia on "Microbes in a changing world" in Barcelona, Spain
• Jay gives seminar at Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana
• Jay gives seminar to Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Program at University of Montana
• Jay participates in Drought-Net workshop at Sevilleta LTER
• Evgeniya Polezhaeva joins the lab to work on our MURI microbial evolution project.
• Jay gives seminar in Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University, Sweden
• Mario and Jay attend MBL PRO-MICROBES workshop in Woods Hole
• Mario's paper on "Species sorting along a subsidy gradient alters bacterial community stability" to appear in Ecology
• Nathan and Jay publish book review in Quarterly Review of Biology on Principles of Microbial Biodiversity
• Jay gives guest lecture at Translational Plant Sciences Symposium at Virginia Tech
• "Re-examining relationship between marine virus and hosts" in Nature Microbiology Check out interactive dashboard!
• Jay gives seminar to Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Montana State University
• "Scaling relationships among drivers of aquatic respiration: from the smallest to the largest freshwater ecosystems" in Inland Waters

2015

• Lab receives NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity award to study microbial seed banks
• IU-led team receives DOD-MURI grant to study "Mechanisms of Prokaryotic Evolution"
• "Microbiomes in light of traits: a phylogenetic perspective" published in Science
• "Microbial contributions to subterranean methane sinks" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Venus Kuo joins the lab as a Ph.D. student
• "Species sorting along a subsidy gradient alters community stability" available as bioRxiv preprint
• "Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity" available as PeerJ preprint
• "Do modern theories of biodiversity fail to predict commonness and rarity among microbes?" available as PeerJ preprint
• Paper on "Crop diversity enhances disease suppressive potential in soil" available as bioRxiv preprint
• "Re-examining the relationship between virus and microbial cell abundances in the global oceans" available as bioRxiv preprint
• Lab presents at the 7th Annual Argonne Soil Metagenomics Meeting
• Jay gives seminar to the Program in Ecology at Duke University
• Jay gives seminar to the Department of Biology at East Carolina University
• Lab presents research at 3rd International Workshop on Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation in Sønderborg, Denmark
• Melany Fisk spending some of her sabbatical in the Lennon Lab
• Meta-analysis on "linking microbial community structure and microbial processes" published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Nathan Wisnoski attends LTER all scientist meeting to present research on microbial metacommunities
• Megan Behringer joins laboratory as postdoc to study microbial evolution
• Will Shoemaker attends NIMBioS Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop
• Co-organizing session on 'trait-based ecology at the microscale' for ESA's centennial meeting in Baltimore
• Read about Mario's research on the microbial diversity of the Huron Mountains
• High School student Dakayla Calhoun participates in the Jim Holland Summer Science Research Program; check out her github repo
• Jay is a guest lecturer at the EDAMAME workshop at Michigan State University
• Will participates in Single Cell Genome Workshop at the Bigelow Lab
• Paper with Kathleen Treseder on "Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics" published in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
• Is the skin microbiome, our first line of defense, sleeping on the job? Watch ASM Live interview with Sarah Cummins and Jay
• Jay gives introductory talk at the Summer Soil Institute at Colorado State University
• Jay attends DARPA Biocomplexity Workshop
• Lab presents research at the ASM meetings in New Orleans
• Lab paper on genome of soil bacterium published in Genome Announcements
• Congratulations to Nathan Wisnoski on receiving the IU Sustainability Research Development Grant
• Jay gives talk at Vietnam National University, Department of Microbiology
• "Evolutionary ecology of microorganisms: from the tamed to the wild" with Vincent Denef now available as preprint via PeerJ
• Congratulations to Mario Muscarella on receiving NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG)
• New paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology on the resuscitation of the rare biosphere
• Review paper on the consequences of browning for aquatic ecosystems published in Ecosystems
• Check out our new course: Quantitative Biodiversity
• Paper on the subsidy-stability hypothesis published in Ecology
• Paper on the relationship between protein-encoding gene abundance and microbial processes published in ISMEJ
• NIMBioS working group paper modeling impacts of viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes to appear in ISMEJ

2014

• Kevin Webster receives grant from National Speleological Society to study microbial diversity of caves
• Lab paper led by Mario Muscarella on phosphorus resource heterogeneity in microbial food webs published in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• Will Shoemaker and Nathan Wisnoski join the lab as Ph.D. students
• Lab paper on "micromanaging" microbial services featured on the cover of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• Jay gives seminar to Department of Biology at University of Louisville
• Mario Muscarella receives grant from the Indiana Academy of Sciences to study microbial carbon cycling
• Jay gives seminar to Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Jay gives seminar to Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Jay gives seminar to Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Program at Miami University
• Jay gives talk at the ISME meetings in Seoul, South Korea
• Interview in Science Magazine on how (not?) to 'Manage a Lab Move'
• Jay is a guest lecturer at the EDAMAME workshop at Michigan State University
• Lab presents at ESA meetings in Sacramento, California
• Jay and Ken attend NEON workshop on Advanced Analysis of Genomic Data in Microbial Ecology
• Paper on trait-based microbial diversity published in special issue of Frontiers in Microbiology
• Paper on rapid evolution of plant-soil feedbacks published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• Lab presents research at Joint Aquatic Science Meeting (JASM) in Portland, OR
• Sarah Cummins receives ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study the skin microbiome
• Paper on plankton assembly published in Journal of Limnology
• Jay gives talk to School of Natural Science and Mathematics at Indiana University East and Earlham College
• Sarah Cummins presents work on skin microbiome at "Techie Women Have More" conference
• Jay gives talk in Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky
• Quote on resurrection ecology in New York Times
• Jay gives talk in Department of Biology, Loyola University of Chicago
• Mario presents research at the Midwest Ecology & Evolution Conference
• Jay gives talk in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Purdue University
• Co-sponsoring Microbial ecosystem services: The good, bad and ugly at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting
• Sarah Bray working in the lab as visiting sabbatical researcher
• Lab organizes Wonderlab exhibit on the metabolic potential of microbial communities
• Ken Locey joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher
• Jay participates in Wilson Center workshop on the "Ecological Implications of Synthetic Biology"
• Last meeting for NIMBioS working group on Ocean Viral Dynamics
• Ariane Peralta joins faculty in the Department of Biology at East Carolina University

2013

• Jay gives seminar at the Department of Integrative Biology, University Texas at Austin
• Jay gives keynote lecture at Argonne Soil Metagenomics Meeting
• Paper on the under-ice microbiome published in Limnology & Oceanography
• Paper on the browning of aquatic ecosystems published in PLOS ONE
• Jay gives a keynote lecture at SAME13 in Stresa, Italy
• Jay gives talk on the 'impacts of bacteriophage in the environment' at the SGM meetings in Sussex, UK
• Lab presents, organizes symposium on "Next Generation Microbial Indicators" at ESA in Minneapolis
• Paper on non-lysogenizing siphovirus published in Genome Announcements
• Jay helps co-organize Israel-U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium
• Ariane presents research at the Society of Wetland Scientists Meeting in Duluth
• Jay gives seminar at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
• Paper on temporal variability of soil microbial communities published in The ISME Journal
• Jay gives seminar in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University California, Santa Barbara
• Graduate students present their research at the Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference
• Ariane discusses soil microbial ecology at the Indiana Small Farm Conference
• Lab presents research at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meetings in New Orleans
• Jay gives keynote at workshop on trait-based microbial biodiversity at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology
• Jay gives seminar in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
• Lab organizes Wonderlab exhibit on Beneficial Bacteria
• Paper on microbial stability published in special issue of Frontiers in Microbiology
• Ariane Peralta receives a USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Research grant
• Paper on snowfall effects on soil microorganisms published in Soil Biology & Biochemistry

2012

• Jay selected as a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences
• Soil microbes improve plant fitness in novel environments in PNAS; See press release and F1000 Recommendation
• Sarah Placella presents lab research at the American Geophysical Union meetings
• Jay gives seminar in Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
• Trina McMahon and Jay to host roundtable at ISME on Frontiers in Microbial Ecosystem Science.
• Jay gives seminar in Biological Sciences, Northwestern University
• Kayla Miller joins lab as a Ph.D. student
• Paper on sulfate-dependent denitrification published in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• Jay presents at workshop on Microbial Life Under Extreme Energy Limitation in Aarhus, Denmark
• Paper on 'Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models' published in Biogeochemistry
• Jay visits University of Jyväskylä and Konnevesi Field Station in Finland
• David Myrold and Jay organize ESA workshop on "Answering Ecological Questions with Metagenomic Sequencing"
• Jay participates in NIMBioS working group on Ocean Viral Dynamics
• Lab paper on microbial traits and taxonomy published in Ecology
• Mario and Jay receive funding from the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation (HMWF) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
• Powell Center funds working group on "Next Generation Microbial Indicators of Ecosystem Function"
• Jay gives seminar in Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal
• Stuart Jones receives Lindeman Award for PNAS paper on dormancy; watch award talk at Lake Biwa, Japan
• Jay presents lab research at PAG XX
• Visit the new website for our summer course in Microbial Metagenomics
• Paper on whole-wetland stable isotope additions published in Limnology and Oceanography
• NSF funds PEATcosm Experimentto explore plant-microbe interactions and climate change
• Ariane Peralta joins lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher

2011

• Jay gives seminar at Indiana University Department of Biology
• Sarah Placella presents lab research at the American Geophysical Union meetings
• Jay gives seminar at University of Massachusetts Department of Microbiology
• Megan Larsen gives talk at the Aquatic Virus Workshop in Texel, the Netherlands
• Jay gives seminar at Oregon State University's Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing
• Jay and Sarah present research at the Argonne Soil Metagenomics Workshop
• Lab presents research at ESA meetings in Austin, TX
• Jay attends workshop on synthetic biology at the Woodrow Wilson Center
• Follow Mario and Megan's sampling adventures in the Upper Peninsula
• Summer course in Microbial Metagenomics is taught at Michigan State University
• Eco-evolutionary plant-microbial feedback paper with Jen Lau to appear in New Phytologist
• Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) paper with Zach Aanderud published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Jay presents lab research at National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) conference in Asheville, NC
• Kali co-authors Ecology Letters paper on linking evolutionary and ecosystem processes
• Sarah Placella joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher
• Megan Larsen presents dissertation research at Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference
• Microbial seed bank paper is published in Nature Reviews Microbiology Read press release and see video
• Mario and Jay receive funding from the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation (HMWF) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
• Lab receives BEACON funding with Jeff Barrick and Chris Klausmeier to study bacteria-phage evolution
• Experimental design paper published in Environmental Microbiology
• Kali presents thesis research at ASLO in Puerto Rico
• Microbial biodiversity paper with Noah Fierer published in special issue of the American Journal of Botany
• Jay gives talk at the California Academy of Sciences
• Jay and Angela Kent organize a symposium ("Micro-managing the planet") at this year's ESA meeting
• Ed Hall visits lab to work on the stoichiometry of plankton-biofilm interactions
• NSF project on denitrification led by Nathaniel Ostrom is funded
• USDA funds lab to study Microbial Communities in Soils

2010

• Paper on sensitivity of soil CO2 to precipitation variability published in Ecosystems
• Mario Muscarella joins lab as a Ph.D. student in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
• Lab presents at the Argonne National Lab Soils Workshop
• Megan Lowenberg joins lab as a research assistant.
• Lab gives talks on dormancy and the rare biosphere at the International Society of Microbial Ecology in Seattle, WA
• Jay serves as Chair of the Microbial Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America
• Quote from interview on microbes and oil spill in New York Times
• Lab presents research at the Ecological Society of America meetings in Pittsburgh, PA
• Jay and Andy Dziaolowski conduct field work at the Hydrobiological Station in Mikołajki, Poland
• Jay presents at Marine Microbes Gordon Research Conference
• Former postdoc, Stuart Jones, starts faculty position at University of Notre Dame
• Jay and Tom Schmidt teach Microbial Metagenomics at KBS
• Lab research presented at American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in Santa Fe, NM
• Lab paper on dormancy and microbial diversity is published in PNAS. Read press release here
• Lab paper on microbial temperature-resource trade-offs is published in Functional Ecology

2009

• Megan Larsen, Ph.D. student, joins lab to working on eco-evolution of cyanobacteria and their phage
• Lab paper on CH4 flow in plankton food webs is published in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• Stuart and Jay attend the GLEON workshop in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin
• Whole-ecosystem DOC experiments are finished
• Collaborative project with Jen Fraterrigo funded through Environmental Change Institute to aquatic-terrestrial carbon cycling
• Jay presents at Plant Virus Ecology Network (PVEN) workshop in Ca' Tron di Roncade, Italy
• Lab receives support from the Broad Institute and Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation for Marine Phage Sequencing Project
• Lab presents research at the Ecological Society of America meetings in Albuquerque, NM
• Lab presents research at the American Society of Microbiology General Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
• Lab presents research at the Aquatic Viral Ecology meeting at the University of Delaware
• MSU News covers story on virus research in Lennon Lab
• Lab presents research at the Soil Science Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA
• In collaboration with Steve Wilhelm, Lab receives NSF funding to study co-evolution of viruses and marine cyanobacteria
• Former postdoc, Zach Aanderud, starts faculty position at Brigham Young University
• Jay gives tutorial on terrestrial DOC in aquatic systems at ASLO meeting in Nice, France
• Lab receives NSF funding to test theory about stability of resource subsidies

Lab at 'Work'

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