current Ecological context of host-microbe interactions Identifying eco-evolutionary feedbacks in the regulation of ecosystem function in microbial communities hosted by the purple pitcher plant Implicating microbes in regulation of host phenology Exploring the division of metabolic labor between hosts and microbes during hibernal diapause in the pitcher plant mosquito (Wyeomyia smithii) Microbiomes in sympatric populations Identifying environmental and host-specific drivers of bacterial symbiont composition in natural populations of sympatric Daphniidae Microbial and trophic ecology of invasive species Exploring the microbial dimension of zebra mussel invasion in the Great Lakes past Integrative study of marine microbial communities Systems biology approach to the study of the most numerically abundant phototroph in the global oceans