Congratulations to Dr. Sydney Glassman who has recently received a $3.1 Million grant, from the U.S. Department of Energy, to fund research studying the effects that post-wildfire conditions have on microorganisms and their emission of the greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide...

Congratulations to Dr. Emma Aronson's lab, who, in collaboration with UCSD, UC Mexus Personnel, & CCB personnel, has found that Mexican mangroves have been capturing carbon for 5,000 years. Their findings have recently been published in the Marine Ecology Progress...

Congratulations to Dr. Emma Aronson whose lab published a paper in the Frontiers in Microbiology journal titled "Landscape Topography and Regional Drought Alters Dust Microbiomes in the Sierra Nevada of California." The study was led by UC Presidential Postdoc Fellow...

Congratulations to Siyi Ge from the Microbiology and Plant Pathology department who has been awarded a 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistant (OTA) award. The Outstanding Teaching Assistant (OTA) Award is a departmental-level award granted by Graduate Division on behalf of the...

The department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology (MPP) had the pleasure of hosting this year's Graduate Student Invited Lectureship and Awards Ceremony 2021-2022 on May 27, 2022, in the Genomics Auditorium & Lobby. As the first major event back on-campus...

Congratulations to Dr. Sydney Glassman whose lab has just published a paper in Molecular Ecology: "Mega-fire in redwood tanoak forest reduces bacterial and fungal richness and selects for pyrophilous taxa that are phylogenetically conserved" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16399. This recent publication was featured...

Dr. Sydney Glassman, Professor in the department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, provides insight into her current research, in partnership with the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examining microbes' role in greenhouse gas emissions, which was recently featured...

Congratulation to Dr. Patrick Degnan whose lab's study results have been published in the journal Cell Reports: "Mobilization of vitamin B12 transporters alters competitive dynamics in a human gut microbe" This recent publication was featured on UC Riverside News. You...