Meet the current members of The Schatz Center:

Members of The Schatz Center

Members of The Schatz Center

Directors of the Schatz Center

        

Faculty Members

  • Kim Steiner, Professor Emeritus of Forest Biology
  • Laura Leites, Associate Professor of Quantitative Forest Ecology
  • Jesse Lasky, Associate Professor of Biology
  • John Carlson, Past Director, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics, University Park

Lab Manager

Research Technologist

  • Austin Parr

Graduate Students

  • Diego del Orbe Matos, Plant Biology Program, PhD Student

  • Muqing Liu, Ecology Program, PhD Student (Incoming Fall 2025)

Post Doctoral Scholars

Undergraduate Students

  • Lucia Anderson

  • Jacob Mazza

  • Kingston Gearheart

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

        

Contact Us

  • Associate Professor & Director, Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics