Meet the current members of The Schatz Center:

Members of The Schatz Center

Members of The Schatz Center

Directors of the Schatz Center

         Jill Hamilton

         Kimberly Bohn

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

Alexander Moen

Graduate Students

Michelle Zavala Paez

Kyra LoPiccolo

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

Diego del Orbe Matos

Post Doctoral Scholars

Dr. Alayna Mead

  • Sammy Muraguri (Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow)

Undergraduate Students

  • Lucia Anderson

Lucia Anderson

  • Alden Stone

Alden Stone

  • Jacob Mazza

Jacob Mazza

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

Dorothy Tchatchoua training with Nicole Zembower

Catherine Bodenes

Rita Costa and Tatyana Zhebentyayeva

Margaret Staton, University of Tennessee

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