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.

José received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from University of California, San Diego where his dissertation was on factors shaping the evolution of emergence timing and its community-level impacts in seasonal environments. Here at IU, José is using a long-term nitrogen addition experiment to test how nitrogen affects natural selection on plant traits and the opportunity for selection.