Liz Troy

Ph.D. Student

Liz received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and has a background in pollinator-vectored plant pathogen ecology and evolution. She has an interest in host-pathogen and microbe-leaf microbiome interactions, and aims to study them within the framework of climate change.

Elizabeth Green

Ph.D. Student

Elizabeth received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Middlebury College. She then worked as a communications and research assistant at The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Although she has worked in many systems, her research interests center around how anthropogenic change, environmental variation, and heterogeneity influence pathogen infection and spread through communities.

Position open now!

Postdoctoral Associate

We are looking for a postdoc to help lead a collaborative project investigating the roles of historical contingency, species interactions, and climate variation in seasonal epidemics.

Susan Cleary

Lab Manager

Susan currently serves as the lab manager of Mitchell lab, working to ensure that both lab and field work run smoothly so that the lab’s research goals are reached. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology and Environmental Studies from Trinity University, with a background in plant biology, mycology, and ecological restoration.

Positions open soon!

Research Technician

We expect to hire field/lab research technicians to fill multiple positions that will start in early spring 2024.

Dr. Charles Mitchell

Principle Investigator

My research group investigates the community ecology of infectious disease. We study pathogens infecting wild plants, chiefly grasses. My main current interest is how seasonal epidemics of infectious diseases can be shaped by the combination of climate variation and ecological interactions among multiple species of coinfecting parasites or pathogens.