Congratulations to Anna on winning the Graduate Student Teaching Award! The Lee Lab is very proud of you and your accomplishments!!! Anna Kazarina K-State Biology

Congratulations to Anna Kazarina Anna Kazarina (on the right) for winning Michael Scot Watkins Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching! K-State BGSA Sonny TM Lee K-State Arts and Sciences K-State Research

We are so proud of Tanner Richie for pushing through and seeing her 2nd chapter to completion 💪!! Please go and check out her amazing work on Eubacterium rectale relieving gut epithelium ROS damage!

PhD candidate Anna Kazarina presented her talk at the One Health Microbiome Symposium at Penn State! Look out for her upcoming publication on the effects of microbial metabolites on plant-host growth! K-State Arts and Sciences K-State Biology Kansas State University Graduate School

#ISME19 come see my poster PS3.17.046 today (08/22)! Let’s talk about the new approach in building plant-oriented SymComs! Lee Lab Sonny TM Lee

The Lee Lab is very proud of Anna Kazarina for presenting her work at #ISME19 in South Africa! In this project, Anna takes one step closer to building a plant-oriented Synthetic Community. Be on the lookout for a preprint of this work next week!👀

Lee Lab graduate student Tanner Richie had a fantastic time at her first GRS and GRC conference where she presented her latest research on limiting microbial driven inflammation!

Lee Lab graduate student Tanner presented a poster at the Johnson Cancer Research Center Data Blitz last week. Tanner’s poster displayed her current research on limiting Klebsiella pneumoniae adherence to colon cells and how that reduces host inflammation and lowers cancer risk.

Undergrad student Summer has been working on her own project. Her project focuses on pure culturing fungi from soil samples that originate from dry and wet soil environments. Her goal is to be able to get an idea of which fungi are more abundant in one environment over the other.

Tanner passed her defense yesterday and is now officially Dr. Richie!! The Lee Lab is so very proud of you and all of your accomplishments. Tanner is a great mentor and friend to the lab and will be missed. The Lee Lab wishes you the best of luck on your next adventure!❤️👩‍🔬

In this video Tanner Richie, a JCRC Graduate Cancer Research Awardee in microbiology shares her research. She recently defended her dissertation & is now officially Doctor Richie, and we couldn’t be prouder! #kstate #kstateresearch #thecurestartswithus #kstatecra #CancerResearch

Huge congrats to Dr. Tanner Richie, a JCRC Graduate Cancer Research Awardee, on successfully defending her dissertation, "Maintaining Balance in the Microverse: Investigating Microbial Impacts on Host Gut Inflammation"! #kstate #kstateresearch #thecurestartswithus #kstatecra

The 2nd project of my PhD work is now live. We showed strong associations of plant-derived metabolite trimethyllysine and rhizobiome function, on mechanisms of rhizosphere recruitment and the microbial capacity to enhance plant's drought stress resilience shorturl.at/mivJs

I’m pleased to share that our manuscript, “Plant host identity drives Andropogon gerardii rhizobiome assembly strategies under increasing abiotic stress,” is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv. 🥳🥳🥳 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Lee Lab K-State Biology K-State Arts and Sciences

Look at the Lee Lab undergrads go! Bryttan presented her research at the JCRC’s Award Banquet, the Undergraduate Research Symposium, and the Biology Undergraduate Research Forum! Will and Darcy both presented their research at the Biology Undergraduate Research Forum!

I’m excited to invite you to the public portion of my PhD defense, taking place this Thursday, July 10th, at 11am (CDT)! The defense will also be streamed on zoom! ksu.zoom.us/j/95643073574

Dr. Kazarina!! It still feels surreal to say that! From the bottom of my heart thank you to all who joined to celebrate this milestone with me. I feel incredibly lucky and deeply grateful for the amazing people who’ve supported me throughout this PhD journey.

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Kazarina!! The Lee Lab is very proud of you for successfully defending your dissertation and completing your PhD. Your hard work and dedication to your research is inspiring and we look forward to seeing how much you accomplish in your future research.