Brandon David Kristy

Graduate Student, Integrative Biology

Graduate Student, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior Program

Pronouns: He/Him/His

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Bio

Department: Integrative Biology
Advisor: Sarah Evans

I am pursuing a duel-major Ph.D. in Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) at Michigan State University. I am currently based at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), where my research is focused on soil microbiomes, mycorrhizal-bacterial interactions, and biological nitrogen fixation. I leverage a combination of high-throughput sequencing, culturing, and stable isotope techniques to connect microbial communities to ecosystem functioning.

Selected Publications

Chronic Drought Differentially Alters the Belowground Microbiome of Drought-Tolerant and Drought-Susceptible Genotypes of Populus trichocarpa View Publication
Qmatey: an automated pipeline for fast exact matching-based alignment and strain-level taxonomic binning and profiling of metagenomes View Publication