Symposium Content Advisors
Small Matters: Microbes and Their Role in Conservation

Brendan Bohannan
Associate Professor, University of Oregon

Ragan M. Callaway 
Plant Ecology Laboratory
University of Montana

Cory Cleveland
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)

Sharon Collinge
University of Colorado

James Cotner
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Karen Day
Chair, New York University Department of Medical Parasitology

Noah Fierer
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder

Jed Fuhrman
Professor
University of Southern California

John Harte
Professor
Energy and Resources Group
University of California at Berkeley

Ian M. Head
Professor of Environmental Microbiology
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
University of Newcastle

Samantha Joye
Professor of Marine Sciences, The University of Georgia

Matthew Kane
Program Director
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Biology Directorate
National Science Foundation

Laura A. Katz
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Smith College

John J. Kelly
Department of Biology
Loyola University Chicago

Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Kolter Lab, Harvard Medical School
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Nancy Knowlton                                   
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Laura D. Kramer
Associate Professor, School of Public Health SUNY Albany
Director, Arbovirus Laboratories
Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health

Kevin Lafferty
UC Santa Barbara

Michael Lemke                                   
University of Illinois

Katherine McMahon
Professor of Environmental Engineering – University of Wisconsin

Robert V. Miller
Regents Professor & Head
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Oklahoma State University

Martin F. Polz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kimberly S. Reece
Associate Professor of Marine Science
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
The College of William and Mary

Thomas M. Schmidt
Professor of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Ohio State University

Peter P. Sheridan
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Department of Biological Sciences
Idaho State University

John R. Spear
Assistant Professor
Division of Environmental Science and Engineering
Colorado School of Mines

James T. Staley
Professor, Department of Microbiology
University of Washington

Jim Tiedje
University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Microbial Ecology Michigan State University

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