Current Personnel

Head, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

• Bradley Cardinale, University Park

Directors of the Schatz Center

• Jill Hamilton, University Park

• Kimberly Bohn, Mont Alto

Faculty Members

• Tatyana Zhebentyayeva, Associate Research Professor and Visiting Scholar
• Kim Steiner, Professor Emeritus of Forest Biology
• Laura Leites, Associate Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology
• Jesse Lasky, Associate Professor of Biology
• Terrence Bell, Assistant Professor of Phytobiomes
• Craig Houghton, Assistant Teaching Professor, Mont Alto
• John Carlson, Past Director, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics, University Park

Lab Manager

• Maureen Mailander

Graduate Students

• Jeremy Sutherland, Bioinformatics and Genomics

Schatz Visiting Scholars, 2019-2021

• Dr. Dorothy Tchapda Tchatchoua, Fulbright Scholar, Department of Agriculture, University of Maroua, Cameroon
• Dr. Catherine Bodénès, the National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bordeaux, France
• Dr. Rita Costa, the Portuguese National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research in Portugal
• Dr. Margaret Staton, Associate Professor of bioinformatics, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Schatz Post-doctoral Fellow

• TBD

Schatz Undergraduate Scholars

• Joshua Gershey, adviser Laura Leites