The Lau Lab

Community Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology

Tomomi Suwa

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Tomomi Suwa is now a Data Scientist at The Field Museum.  For her Ph.D., Tomomi investigated how rhizobium mutualists can facilitate plant adaptation to soil moisture.

Tyler Bassett

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Tyler is currently a Conservation Associate at the Michigan Natural Features Inventory. Tyler is a well known Michigan botanist and studied the effects of species diversity on stability, invasion resistance, and ecosystem functions in restored prairies for his Ph.D.

Guillaume Dury

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Guillaume received his M.Sc. in Plant Science, Neotropical Environment Option from McGill University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is co-advised by Dr. Michael Wade and Dr. Jennifer Lau. He is studying the evolution within generational plasticity and transgenerational plasticity.

Mia Howard

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Mia is now a Collegiate Fellow at University of Michigan, where she studies how nitrogen-fixing bacteria (rhizobia) affect the evolution of cyanide production in clovers, and conversely, how cyanide production affects the evolution of mutualism. Mia received her Ph.D. from Cornell University where she studied how soil microbes affect the ecology and evolution of plant defenses over succession.