Bio

Education

Ph.D. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University 2022

BS Biology University of Montana 2016

BS Health and Human Performance University of Montana 2016

Publications

• A Caulobacter hub taxon in the soybean root endosphere has a distinctive biofilm and engages in riboflavin-mediated mutualism with Bradyrhizobium , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
• Scalability and Tunability of Woodchip Bioreactors for Agrochemical Removal and Water Reuse in Commercial Production Settings , ACS ES&T Water (2026)
• A cost and community perspective on the barriers to microbiome data reuse , Frontiers in Bioinformatics (2025)
• Investigating Bacterial-Fungal Interactions using Fungal Highway Columns in Diverse Environments and Substrates , Journal of Visualized Experiments (2025)
• Pangeneric Analyses Reveal the Divergent Genome Evolution and Ecologies between Morels and Truffles in the Morchellaceae , Current Biology (2025)
• Quantifying the impact of workshops promoting microbiome data standards and data stewardship , Scientific Reports (2025)
• Recovering new viruses from New Mexico soils , Microbiology Resource Announcements (2025)
• STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies , Nature Microbiology (2025)
• Erratum for Longley et al., “Signatures of Mollicutes-related endobacteria in publicly available Mucoromycota genomes” , mSphere (2024)
• Fabricated devices for performing bacterial-fungal interaction experiments across scales , Frontiers in Microbiology (2024)

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