We are a research lab at Duke University exploring the causes and consequences of patterns of biological diversity across the planet. We combine observational and experimental approaches with modeling to develop and test hypotheses and build towards synthetic ecological theory. We hope you enjoy exploring our website!
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NewsApril 2019
Great news! Anita Simha will be joining the Wright lab in the fall. She is currently a data analyst for the EPA and a UNC graduate October 2018 Aspen's paper on microbial N limitation in mammalian guts is out in Nature Microbiology! July 2018 Amanda Koltz's work on the interactions between warming and spider predation on soil carbon dynamics is now out in PNAS! June 2018 Aspen's paper on antibiotics and gut redox status is now out in eLife. April 2018 We're very excited that David De La Mater will be joining the Wright lab this fall Justin's work with Jason Fridley on succession across a latitudinal gradient is published in PNAS March 2018 Cari Ficken has successfully defended her dissertation. She will be heading to University of Waterloo to work with Rebecca Rooney to understand how mining impacts wetland functioning January 2018 Jennifer Rocca will be joining the Wright lab as a post-doc working on our (her) newly funded NSF grant on Microbial Community Coalescence: Disentangling Assembly Processes during Aquatic Mixing August 2017 Rachel is leaving the Wright lab to start her new position as an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University. Good luck! June 2017 Emily has been awarded a NASA NSPIRES fellowship to combine remote sensing with ground based measurements of the effects of salt water intrusion on coastal ecosystems! Justin presents at the New Phytologist Symposium on Trait covariation: Structural and functional relationships in plant ecology May 2017 Aspen Reese successfully defended her PhD! She will be heading to a Harvard Junior Fellowship in September where she will be sure to be making important contributions on community assembly in microbes. February 2017 The Wright lab is hiring an REU this summer to investigate the effects of the invasive grass, Microstegium vimineum on native ecosystems. Interested? January 2017 Aspen Reese has been awarded a Harvard Fellows position starting next year. Amazing work! Marissa's review paper on Invasive effects on N cycling is out in New Phytologist And Cari has her paper on the effects of fire on N cycling out in Biogeosciences August 2016 Good representation at ESA. Justin, Rachel, Greg, and Aspen all give talks and recent undergrad Kyrstin Lulow presents a poster. Cari presented a poster at the Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference June 2016 Justin is a co-author in a paper in Oecologia based on work conducted while at the University of Potsdam May 2016 Big month for the Wright Lab: Marissa successfully defends her PhD and will be starting a post doc with Amy Zanne in August. YAY!! Cari is awarded an American Society of Naturalist Research Award and Justin, Greg, and Rachel have a paper published in Phil Trans B April 2016 Cari is invited to the CLIMMANI-Interface Workshop on Modeling Extreme Climatic Scenarios in Florence, Italy March 2016 Cari is awarded and NSF DDIG for her research on "Scaling Plant Physiology to Ecosystem Ecology: Assessing the Role of the Plant Community in Preventing Nitrogen Losses Following Fire." She was also awarded the Oak Ridge National Lab GO Fellowship to work with Jeff Warren. Go Cari! Feb 2016 Cari coauthors a paper on the carbon storage of Prairie Pothole wetlands in JEQ. Click here to read it! |
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