Lab News
2025
Nathan attends workshop on dormancy at Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University.
Mahesh and Nathan conduct field research on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, supported by MSU Coastal Research and Extension Center.
The lab presents research at the Annual Meeting of the South Central Branch of ASM (American Society for Microbiology), hosted by Mississippi State University, at the Mill, Starkville, MS. Mahesh wins first-place poster award for the postdoc category!
Jenny (Secretary) and Sharna (International Student Rep) take on leadership roles in the Biology Graduate Student Association at MSU.
New preprint with Megan Szojka, Rachel Germain, Tad Fukami, and Lauren Shoemaker, on the role of dispersal kernels in shaping metacommunity diversity and the processes that maintain it.
Welcome new lab member Mahesh Chinthalapudi, as a postdoctoral researcher!
Nathan attended ESA 2025 in Baltimore, co-organized an oral session with Zach Miller, and presented new research on dormancy in metacommunities
Nathan invited to a workshop at the HJ Andrews LTER on conducting synoptic studies of the River Corridor Critical Zone, and conducts fieldwork to assess the impacts of fire on river corridors
Sharna and Nathan conduct fieldwork in the Mississippi Delta, at the National Warmwater Aquaculture Center, to study catfish microbiomes in collaboration with researchers from the MSU Vet School and Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Jenny and Nathan conduct fieldwork in the Florida Everglades to understand microbial communities in mangrove forests, in collaboration with researchers from Florida International University
New collaborative paper using long-term Cedar Creek LTER data published in Ecology Letters: Effects of Disturbance and Fertilisation on Plant Community Synchrony, Biodiversity and Stability Through Succession, with coauthors from University of Wyoming, University of Minnesota, Southern Oregon University, Oregon State University, and Union College.
2024
Welcome new lab members Jenny Marie Patalinghug and Sadia Nusrat Sharna, both PhD students beginning Fall 2024!
TJ Singh wins travel awards to attend ESA from the Honors Undergraduate Research Program in the Shackouls Honors College and the College of Arts & Sciences Student First Undergraduate Excellence
New preprint on short- and long-term synchrony dynamics with colleagues from Univ of Wyoming and Univ of Minnesota
Lab will attend ESA 2024 in Long Beach, CA: Nathan will give a talk on dormancy in metacommunities; undergraduate researcher Tajinder Singh will present a poster on terrestrial-aquatic linkages and microbial community dynamics
Undergraduate Tajinder Singh presents research at the MSU Biology Undergraduate Research Program 15th Annual Symposium and wins 1st place award for best presentation! Nathan receives “First Place Mentor Award”.
Nathan attends All Hands Meeting at Jackson State University to discuss federally funded MBRACE research
New publication in Environmental Microbiology: “Environmental filtering governs consistent vertical zonation in sedimentary microbial communities across disconnected mountain lakes” with collaborators from the University of Wyoming
2023
Lab receives U.S. Department of Treasury MBRACE award to study the ecology of coastal microbial communities in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Wisnoski lab recruiting a postdoc and graduate students
Nathan attends workshop on “Critical phenomena and challenges emerging from dormancy” at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and gives talk on “The spatial ecology of dormancy in multispecies communities”
Nathan presents research on diversity-stability relationships in metacommunities at the first meeting of the Southeast USA Chapter of the Society for Freshwater Science in Columbus, GA
Nathan teaches Community Ecology course for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students
“Diversity-stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales” published in Ecology, with coauthors from our NSF-funded synthesis working group administered by the Long-Term Ecological Research Network.
Nathan to present talk at ASM Microbe in Houston in an organized oral session on Microbial Dispersal Across Spatial Scales (unfortunately, canceled due to illness)
Nathan teaches Ecology, an upper-division biology course at MSU
“Differential effects of press vs. pulse seawater intrusion on microbial communities of a tidal freshwater marsh” published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters in an interesting special issue on Salinization of Freshwater Ecosystems
2022
“Scaling up and down: movement ecology for microorganisms” published in Trends in Microbiology, with co-author Jay Lennon
Nathan gives a seminar in the Department of Aquatic Ecology at Eawag
Nathan gives a seminar in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology & Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University
Nathan attends Ecological Society of America meeting in Montreal to present talk on seed banks and metacommunities (canceled due to illness).
Nathan attends workshop “Merging Statistical Theory and Analyses at the Interface of Microbial and Macrobial Ecology” in Montreal, Canada, organized by Mathew Leibold, Elisa Thebault, and Pedro Peres-Neto
The Wisnoski lab starts in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University.
Nathan attends workshop and presents research at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics at Universität Bonn in Bonn, Germany.
“Seed banks alter metacommunity diversity: the interactive effects of competition, dispersal, and dormancy” published in Ecology Letters, with co-author Lauren Shoemaker