Congratulations to Dr. James Mickley for his new position as herbarium curator at Oregon State. As sad as we are to see him move on, we look forward to watching his career flourish in his new role!

Congratulations to Val Milici, who just landed a 1-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution. Val will continue her work on how pathogen-plant interactions are affected by precipitation gradients and seasonality to structure tropical tree communities.

Val Milici led the lab in writing a review paper on how pathogen-plant interactions might vary along tropical precipitation gradients, and how that could impact plant diversity. Read it here.