American microbiologist
Ashley L. Shade
Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susquehanna University Scientific career Fields Microbial Ecology and Plant-Microbe Interactions Thesis Aquatic bacteria, lakes, and water column overturn: a model microbial system for disturbance ecology (2010) Doctoral advisor Katherine D. McMahon
Website https://ashley17061.wixsite.com/shadelab/home
Ashley L. Shade is a Director of Research with the Institute of Ecology and the Environment of Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.[ 1] Shade is an adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences.[ 2] She is best known for her work in microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions.
Education
Shade received her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Susquehanna University .[ 1] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Katherine D. McMahon.[ 3] Her dissertation[ 3] was on the disturbance ecology of freshwater microbial communities in vertically stratified lakes that experience lake turnover . Shade did her post-doctoral work at Yale University under Jo Handelsman as a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Scholar in the Life Sciences Research Foundation.[ 1]
Career and research
After completing her post-doctoral research at Yale, Shade moved to Michigan State University in 2014.[ 4] Shade began her research group at Michigan State University as an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (now the Department of Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology ) and the Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences . In 2021, Shade was promoted to associate professor .[ 1] The lab was a founding member of the Michigan State Plant Resilience Institute [ 5] and a part of the BioMolecular Sciences Graduate Training Program , the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center , and the Ecology, Evolutionary, and Behavior program at Michigan State University.[ 4] In her career, Shade has promoted the importance of data accessibility, reproducibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion and has spoken about work-life balance .[ 4]
Shade has contributed to the fields of microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions.[ 6] For example, The Earth Microbiome Project works to collect and analyze microbial samples across the globe.[ 7] These contributions have contributed to the general understanding of resilience in freshwater, soil and plant-associated microbiomes.[ 7]
Shade's Lab focuses on microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions by using Omics approaches to evaluate microbiomes.[ 4] The lab has three main areas of research including ecological microbiome resilience, interactions in synthetic microbial communities, and plant-microbe-soil interactions to promote resilience to climate change.[ 4]
In 2022, Shade moved to France to join the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as a director of research.[ 1] She is part of the Laboratoire Ecologie Microbienne . There, she is working on how to increase the resilience of natural and agricultural systems, including crops and soils, by maintaining microbial functions despite changing environmental conditions due to climate change .
Shade is a senior editor for the American Society for Microbiology 's journal mSystems [ 8] and has previously been a guest editor for Phytobiomes Journal .[ 9]
Selected awards and recognition
2022 European Research Council Consolidator Award [ 10] [ 11]
2021 Michigan State University Graduate School Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award to junior faculty [ 12]
2019: Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow[ 13]
2018: United States National Science Foundation CAREER award [ 14] [ 15]
2010–2013: Life Sciences Research Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [ 16]
2009: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology: Ira L. Baldwin Distinguished Predoctoral Fellowship for Excellence in Research
2008: University of Wisconsin-Madison Anna Grant Birge Award for Limnology Field Work
Selected publications
Barnett, Samuel E; Shade, Ashley (2024). "Arrive and wait: inactive bacterial taxa contribute to perceived soil microbiome resilience after a multidecadal press disturbance". Ecology Letters . 27 : e14393. doi :10.1111/ele.14393 . PMID 38430049 .
Vandepol, Natalie S; Shade, Ashley (2024). "Is everything everywhere? A hands-on activity to engage undergraduates with key concepts in quantitative microbial biogeography" . The Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education . 0 : e00170-23. doi :10.1128/jmbe.00170-23 . PMC 11360409 . PMID 38634606 .
Howe, A; Stopnisek, N; Dooley, SK; Yang, FM; Grady, KL; Shade, Ashley (2023). "Seasonal activities of the phyllosphere microbiome of perennial crops" . Nature Communications . 14 : 1039. doi :10.1038/s41467-023-36515-y . PMC 9950430 . PMID 36823152 .
Shade, Ashley; Jacques, Marie-Agnès; Barret, Matthieu (2017). "Ecological patterns of seed microbiome diversity, transmission, and assembly" . Current Opinion in Microbiology . 37 : 15– 22. doi :10.1016/j.mib.2017.03.010 . PMID 28437661 .
Shade, Ashley (2017). "Diversity is the question, not the answer" . The ISME Journal . 11 (1): 1– 6. doi :10.1038/ismej.2016.118 . PMC 5421358 . PMID 27636395 .
References
^ a b c d e Shade, Ashley (January 13, 2022). "Ashley Shade Curriculum Vitae" .
^ "Shade, Ashley" . mmg.natsci.msu.edu . Retrieved 2022-12-01 .
^ a b "Redirecting you to the requested resource..." proxying.lib.ncsu.edu . Retrieved 2022-12-01 .
^ a b c d e "shade lab" . shadelab . Retrieved 2022-12-01 .
^ "World-renowned scientists to study plant resilience in new MSU research institute" . MSU Today . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ Shade, Ashley; Peter, Hannes; Allison, Steven; Baho, Didier; Berga, Mercé; Buergmann, Helmut; Huber, David; Langenheder, Silke; Lennon, Jay; Martiny, Jennifer; Matulich, Kristin; Schmidt, Thomas; Handelsman, Jo (2012). "Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience" . Frontiers in Microbiology . 3 : 417. doi :10.3389/fmicb.2012.00417 . ISSN 1664-302X . PMC 3525951 . PMID 23267351 .
^ a b Thompson, Luke R.; Sanders, Jon G.; McDonald, Daniel; Amir, Amnon; Ladau, Joshua; Locey, Kenneth J.; Prill, Robert J.; Tripathi, Anupriya; Gibbons, Sean M.; Ackermann, Gail; Navas-Molina, Jose A.; Janssen, Stefan; Kopylova, Evguenia; Vázquez-Baeza, Yoshiki; González, Antonio (2017-11-23). "A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity" . Nature . 551 (7681): 457– 463. Bibcode :2017Natur.551..457T . doi :10.1038/nature24621 . ISSN 0028-0836 . PMC 6192678 . PMID 29088705 .
^ "mSystems" . mSystems . 2015. doi :10.1128/eissn.2379-5077 . Retrieved 2022-12-01 .
^ "About Phytobiomes Journal" . Phytobiomes Journal . Retrieved 2022-12-01 .
^ "ERC Consolidator Grants 2022 List of Principal Investigators selected for funding" (PDF) . European Research Council . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ "Project description: MicroRescue: Resolving mechanisms of microbiome rescue to promote resilience to climate change" . CORDIS - EU research results . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ "Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Awards" . Michigan State University Graduate School . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ Gentes, Zoe. "Ecological Society of America announces 2019 Fellows" . Ecological Society of America . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ Brooks, Caroline; Osowski, Val. "MSU's Ashley Shade lands NSF Early CAREER Award" . MSU Today . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ "Award Abstract # 1749544" . U.S. National Science Foundation . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .
^ "Alumni Fellows" . Life Sciences Research Foundation . Retrieved 29 August 2024 .