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Sarah Lydia Lebeis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology at Michigan State University, with additional appointments as Associate Professor in the BioMolecular Science Gateway and as Regular Faculty in the Molecular Plant Sciences Program. She also holds an Assistant Professor position at the Plant Resilience Institute.
Dr. Lebeis received her B.S. from Michigan State University in 2002, followed by a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2008. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 2009-2014.
Her research focuses on plant-microbe interactions, particularly how plants and microbes contribute to host microbiome assembly. Her lab investigates plant influence over microbiome composition through root exudates, microbial chemotaxis toward positive factors like sugars, and microbial survival despite negative growth factors such as phenolic compounds. She also studies critical microbe-microbe interactions in plant microbiome assembly, including the impact of Streptomyces on other microbes and synthetic community experiments.
Dr. Lebeis has published extensively in the field of plant-microbe interactions, with research spanning from fundamental mechanisms of microbiome assembly to broader implications for plant health and agricultural applications. Her work bridges molecular plant sciences, microbiology, and ecology to understand the complex relationships between plants and their microbial communities.
She teaches MMG 499: Undergraduate Research, mentoring the next generation of scientists in microbiology and plant sciences.
