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Fall 2026

Undergraduate students, Ethan Nguyen and Arriyah Jones, joined the lab as a undergraduate researchers. Welcome Arriyah and Ethan!

Xiaojun Allen Liu and Jiaqi Tan received funding from JGI's Community Science Program for their study, Functional transcriptomics of plant-microbe interactions
Jada Daniels and Xiaojun Allen Liu presented their work at the 2026 ESA conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Graduate Student, Jada Daniels, published her work, Introducing a Novel Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Using Duckweed as a Model System, in Integrative Organismal Biology.
Andrew Bywater, joined the lab as a research associate after completing his undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University. Welcome Andrew!

Graduate Student, Xiyan Feng, passed her general exams! Congratulations Xiyan!
Graduate Student, Yifeng Cao, publish her research, Revisiting competitive outcomes through a trait lens: a global meta-analysis across species provenance, in Nature Brief Communications.
Xiyan Feng presented her research: Top down control vs bottom up control in host microbiome systems at ESA!

Graduate student Yifeng Cao taught a CURE lab for honors biology students during the semester. The students presented their research at the CURE Poster Session on April 30th, 2025.
Undergraduate students from our Spring 2024 CURE Course, Sydney Clay Charlie Nguyen and Trinity Robichaux, presented their poster titled The Influence of Temperature on Spirodela polyrhiza at the LSU Discover Day Session on April 25th, 2025.
Undergraduate student, Adam Tarleton, presented his poster titled Top-down Predator Controls Influence Bottom-Up Controls on the Host By Reducing the Impact of Microbial Stochastic Processes at the LSU Discover Day Session on April 25th, 2025.
Undergraduate student, Ananya Pathak, presented her poster titled Testing the Impact of Climate Change on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Growth at the LSU Discover Day Session on April 25th, 2025.
Xiaojun Liu, joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher after completing his doctorate degree from Northern Arizona University. Welcome Xiaojun!

Jiaqi Tan and graduate students, Jada Daniels and Xiyan Feng, attended the 2025 Ecological Society of American Conference in Long Beach, CA!

We added 2 undergraduate students to our lab, Adam Tarleton and Ananya Pathak. Welcome Adam and Ananya!
Graduate student, Jada Daniels, attended the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab Summit at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.
Graduate student, Jada Daniels, participated in the NSF - funded EMERGE program at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH.
Graduate Student, Jada Daniels, passed her general exams! Congratulations Jada!
Graduate student Jada Daniels taught a CURE lab for honors biology students during the semester. The students presented their research at the CURE Poster Session on May 3, 2024.

Graduate Student, Xiyan Feng, is completing a semester long rotation in the lab. Welcome Xiyan!
Graduate Student, Jada Daniels, completed her entrance seminar this semester. Congratulations Jada!
Undergraduate student, Reetu Shrestha, presented her poster session on Rapid Evolution in Pseudomonas fluorescens at the LSU Discover Day Session on April 21st, 2023.
We added 3 undergraduate students to our lab: Yijian Zheng, Faiza Ashan, and Colin Havard. Welcome Yijian, Faiza, and Colin!
Graduate student Jada Daniels taught a CURE lab for honors biology students during the semester. The students presented their research at the CURE Poster Session on May 5, 2023.

Graduate Students, Yifeng Cao and Xiyan Feng, completed their entrance seminar this semester! If you are interested in a recording, please email that student!
Jiaqi Tan and graduate student, Jada Daniels, attended a Moore Foundation Workshop on duckweeds, microbes, and symbiosis at Massey College in Toronto, ON.
Xiyan Feng joined the lab as a graduate student (PhD) after completing her Undergraduate degree at Zhengzhou University! Welcome Xiyan!

Jada Daniels joined the lab as a graduate student (PhD) after completing her Master's degree at Georgia Southern University! Welcome Jada!

Yifeng Cao joined the lab as a graduate student (PhD) after completing her Master's degree at Beijing Forestry University! Welcome Yifeng

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