People

2019 Lab Group Photo

Soil Biology Lab PI

Dr. Lisa Tiemann, Associate Professor

Postdocs

Ali Zahorec (zahoreca@msu.edu)

Abby Sulesky-Grieb (suleskya@msu.edu)

Graduate Students

Lab Technicians

Undergraduate Students

Paige Sirak

The Soil Biology Lab in the Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences Department at MSU is always looking for talented and highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students. If you are interested in joining the lab please email Dr. Tiemann.

 Past Lab Members

Graduate Students

  • Nzube Prisca Egboluche, MSc (2015-2019), Nigerian MasterCard Scholar
  • Alexia Witcombe, PhD (2015-2021)
  • Darian Smercina, PhD (2015-2020)
  • Brian Liang, MSc (2019-2021)
  • Andrew Curtright, PhD (2017-2022)
  • Madelyn Celovsky, MSc (2021-2023)

Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Stephanie Grand (2015)
  • Daniel Warnock (2016-17)
  • Yang Ouyang (2017-18)
  • Matthew Reid (2018-2020)
  • Yuan Liu (2018-2023)
  • Violeta Acuna Matus (2020-2023)

Full-time Lab Technicians

  • Amanda Harden
  • Fiona Kach
  • Jake Nash
  • Charity Mackie
  • Eion Riley
  • Sarah Ruth
  • Cheristy Jones
  • Andrea Gatchell
  • Mary Lloyd
  • Kristen Olson
  • Sarah Klein
  • Bradon Krah
  • Jaime Davidson

Undergraduate Students

Kyle Kelley (2014-16), Ashley Sumerix (2014-15), Megan Vanderploeg* (2014-16), Laney Hult* (2015-17), Bana Abolibdeh* (2015-17), David French (2015), Evan Thomas (2015-16), Matthew Uebbing (2016-18), Milo Taylor (2017-18), Chloe Page (2017), Ethan Rocklin (2017-19), Andrew Banitt (2017-18), Kristen Przano (2017-19), Expery Omollo (2017-2019), Jennifer Gonzales (2018), Christin Landis (2018-2020), Kaiyu Chen (2019-2020), Madeline Anthony (2019-2020), Kristin Fuller (2019-2020), Amanda Lietz (2019)