Welcome to my site.  Click here to see an image of my microbiology students 

Click here and here  to read about and see our transcontinential research trip put together by my students!

Description of images (from left to right):  Me handling a Cholla thorn at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR) near Socorro, NM.  View from Los Pinos cave onto McKenzie Flats in the heart of SNWR.  The next image is of my research students this summer (2008; Doug Eudy, Hana Khidir, and Kelsey Vaughn) after they visited a cave near Mapimi, Mexico.  The next image on the right is of blue grama "fairy rings" out in the desert of new Mexico.  The last image is of my current research students (Haleigh White, Katie Nebel and Ravin Poudel) at the Sevilleta field station in NM.  We are currently assessing the microfungal populations in a variety of substrates including several species of grasses and dung.  This NSF-funded research examined the geographic patterns of plant endophytes and is described in the links above.