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I received my PhD in Microbiology from University of California, Berkeley in 2006 with Mary K. Firestone and Steven E. Lindow as my advisers. My research involved the interactions of plants and soil bacteria in the rhizosphere, with a focus on the hypothesis that the bacterial group behavior quorum sensing was a potential control point in rhizosphere soil N availability. My approach included using tools to ask questions regarding the microbial ecology of the system while simultaneously isolating organisms and querying the individual physiological capacity of the system. Currently I am a postdoc under the LBNL Seaborg Fellows program, working mostly in Earth Sciences Division and Life Sciences Division. My current projects are: in collaboration with Terry Hazen and Whendee Silver (UCB), tropical forest soils as reservoir for new biofuels-decomposing microorganisms; in collaboration with Tamas Torok, cultivating novel anaerobic lignocellulose degrading bacteria; in collaboration with Terry Hazen and Manfred Auer, biofilm formation of lignin-degrading microorganisms in tropical forest soils; in collaboration with Janet Jansson and Mark Waldrop (USGS), microbial ecology of melting permafrost in the Alaskan tundra; in collaboration with Gary Andersen and Nian Wang (UFl), microbial ecology of xylem microbial communities that potentially cause citrus greening disease. Download full CV here (pdf)
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