Ashley Shade Explained

Ashley L. Shade
Caption:Ashley Shade hiking in summer 2021.
Fields:Microbial Ecology and Plant-Microbe Interactions
Alma Mater:University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susquehanna University
Thesis Title:Aquatic bacteria, lakes, and water column overturn: a model microbial system for disturbance ecology
Thesis Year:2010
Doctoral Advisor:Katherine D. McMahon
Website:https://ashley17061.wixsite.com/shadelab/home

Ashley L. Shade is a Director of Research with the Institute of Ecology and the Environment of Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.[1] Shade is an adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences.[2] She is best known for her work in microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions.

Education

Shade received her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Susquehanna University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Katherine D. McMahon.[3] Her dissertation was on the disturbance ecology of freshwater microbial communities in vertically stratified lakes that experience lake turnover. Shade did her post-doctoral work at Yale University under Jo Handelsman as a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Scholar in the Life Sciences Research Foundation.

Career and research

After completing her post-doctoral research at Yale, Shade moved to Michigan State University in 2014.[4] Shade began her research group at Michigan State University as an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (now the Department of Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology) and the Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences. In 2021, Shade was promoted to associate professor. The lab was a founding member of the Michigan State Plant Resilience Institute[5] and a part of the BioMolecular Sciences Graduate Training Program, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, and the Ecology, Evolutionary, and Behavior program at Michigan State University. In her career, Shade has promoted the importance of data accessibility, reproducibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion and has spoken about work-life balance.

Shade has contributed to the fields of microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions.[6] For example, The Earth Microbiome Project works to collect and analyze microbial samples across the globe.[7] These contributions have contributed to the general understanding of resilience in freshwater, soil and plant-associated microbiomes.

Shade's Lab focuses on microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions by using Omics approaches to evaluate microbiomes. The lab has three main areas of research including ecological microbiome resilience, interactions in synthetic microbial communities, and plant-microbe-soil interactions to promote resilience to climate change.

In 2022, Shade moved to France to join the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as a director of research. She is part of the Laboratoire Ecologie Microbienne. There, she is working on how to increase the resilience of natural and agricultural systems, including crops and soils, by maintaining microbial functions despite changing environmental conditions due to climate change.

Shade is a senior editor for the American Society for Microbiology's journal mSystems[8] and has previously been a guest editor for Phytobiomes Journal.[9]

Selected awards and recognition

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shade . Ashley . January 13, 2022 . Ashley Shade Curriculum Vitae .
  2. Web site: Shade, Ashley . 2022-12-01 . mmg.natsci.msu.edu . en.
  3. Web site: Redirecting you to the requested resource... . 2022-12-01 . proxying.lib.ncsu.edu.
  4. Web site: shade lab . 2022-12-01 . shadelab . en.
  5. Web site: World-renowned scientists to study plant resilience in new MSU research institute . MSU Today . 29 August 2024.
  6. Shade . Ashley . Peter . Hannes . Allison . Steven . Baho . Didier . Berga . Mercé . Buergmann . Helmut . Huber . David . Langenheder . Silke . Lennon . Jay . Martiny . Jennifer . Matulich . Kristin . Schmidt . Thomas . Handelsman . Jo . 2012 . Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience . Frontiers in Microbiology . 3 . 417 . 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00417 . 23267351 . 3525951 . 1664-302X. free .
  7. Thompson . Luke R. . Sanders . Jon G. . McDonald . Daniel . Amir . Amnon . Ladau . Joshua . Locey . Kenneth J. . Prill . Robert J. . Tripathi . Anupriya . Gibbons . Sean M. . Ackermann . Gail . Navas-Molina . Jose A. . Janssen . Stefan . Kopylova . Evguenia . Vázquez-Baeza . Yoshiki . González . Antonio . 2017-11-23 . A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity . Nature . en . 551 . 7681 . 457–463 . 10.1038/nature24621 . 0028-0836 . 6192678 . 29088705. 2017Natur.551..457T .
  8. mSystems . 2022-12-01 . mSystems . 2015 . 10.1128/eissn.2379-5077 . en. free .
  9. Web site: About Phytobiomes Journal . 2022-12-01 . Phytobiomes Journal . . en.
  10. Web site: ERC Consolidator Grants 2022 List of Principal Investigators selected for funding . European Research Council . 29 August 2024.
  11. Web site: Project description: MicroRescue: Resolving mechanisms of microbiome rescue to promote resilience to climate change . CORDIS - EU research results . 29 August 2024.
  12. Web site: Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Awards . Michigan State University Graduate School . 29 August 2024.
  13. Web site: Gentes . Zoe . Ecological Society of America announces 2019 Fellows . Ecological Society of America . 29 August 2024.
  14. Web site: Brooks . Caroline . Osowski . Val . MSU’s Ashley Shade lands NSF Early CAREER Award . MSU Today . 29 August 2024.
  15. Web site: Award Abstract # 1749544 . U.S. National Science Foundation . 29 August 2024.
  16. Web site: Alumni Fellows . Life Sciences Research Foundation . 29 August 2024.

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