People

Current and past members of the Zimmerman Lab at USF.

Pre-COVID Lab Group Meeting

Principal Investigator

Naupaka Zimmerman

Biogeography, ecological function, and evolution of plant microbiomes.

Alumni

Graduate Students

Ashley Sango

Public health and urban aerial microbiomes across the City of San Francisco.

Derek Newberger

Foliar and soil fungi associated with different cover crop species in an organic farming system.

Jason Krastins

Endophyte modulation of drought stress in Populus; Primer bias in high-throughput sequencing in an experimental rainforest (Biosphere2).

Joshua Copeland

Community ecology and VOC production by endophytes of Populus spp.

Sarah Gao

Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of interacting drought and cover crop amendment in an organic farming system.

Undergraduate Students

Ava Albert

Bioinformatic analyses of plant metagenomes to extract symbiont reads.

Christina Tran

Phyllosphere microbiomes of cover crops at Star Route Farms.

Emma Gibson

Biogeography of fungal endophytes in Metrosideros excelsa across San Francisco.

Emre Ovet

Experimental inoculation of Arabidopsis thaliana with endophytes and their effects on VOC signaling.

Julian Murdzek

Fungal endophytes of Metrosideros excelsa across San Francisco.

Marcello Kuan

Phyllosphere bacterial communities from cover crops at Star Route Farms.

Natalie Ashburner-Wright

Modulation of foliar transpiration by endophytes of Populus trichocarpa.

Nivedita Ghosh

Nutrient analyses from a soil microcosm drought experiment.

Reina Rios

Experimental inoculation of Arabidopsis thaliana with endophytes and their effects on VOC signaling.

Sayeh Jafari

Experimental inoculation of Populus trichocarpa with endophytes to quantify effects on drought stress.

Victoria Lamar

Public health impacts of air quality and urban aerial microbiomes in San Francisco.

High School Students

Amirtha Maria

Phyllosphere bacteria of cover crops in an organic system; effects of aquatic nutrient levels on chlorophyll concentration across NEON sites.