​Kadeem J. Gilbert

Employment:
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University: August 2021-current
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USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University: September 2019-July 2021

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Education:
Ph.D., Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2019
B.S., Natural Resources (Applied Ecology), Cornell University, 2012

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I am an ecologist and evolutionary biologist primarily interested in interactions between plants and other organisms, especially when those interactions are symbiotic (i.e. the associated organisms spend a significant portion of their lives in close physical contact with host plant tissues). A major theme of my ongoing research projects is an examination of the ways in which plants influence their symbionts by manipulating the abiotic properties of their leaf micro-environments. For my investigations, I utilize a wide array of techniques and approaches, including field observation, manipulative experiments, phylogenetic comparative methods, DNA metabarcoding, transcriptomics, and metatranscriptomics.