Full Professor(heuristic)

Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology · Ecology

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h-index88
i10-index195
Publications334
Citations42,216

Grants

21 total · 2 active

NIH #R01GM155840

The importance of failure in science education: Interventions to promote STEM motivation through failure

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2024-09-01 → 2029-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

NSF #2417136

Developing an Intervention to Foster Productive Failure in STEM College Courses

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2024-10-01 → 2027-09-30
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIH #R01GM152744

DMS/NIGMS 1: Modeling Microbial Community Response to Invasion: A Multi-Omics and Multifacton

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2023-09-26 → 2026-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

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All Grants

21 total · 2 active

NIH #R01GM155840

The importance of failure in science education: Interventions to promote STEM motivation through failure

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2024-09-01 → 2029-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

NSF #2417136

Developing an Intervention to Foster Productive Failure in STEM College Courses

Active
Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2024-10-01 → 2027-09-30
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIH #R01GM152744

DMS/NIGMS 1: Modeling Microbial Community Response to Invasion: A Multi-Omics and Multifacton

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2023-09-26 → 2026-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

NIH #U01GM132174

Studying Inclusive Mentor Networks to Diversify the Biomedical Workforce

Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2019-07-08 → 2024-06-30
PIs
4

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

NSF #1904154

EAGER: Development of a Research Tool to Investigate Factors that Influence Researchers' Attitudes about Engagement in Public Science Events

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2019-07-01 → 2022-06-30
PIs
4

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIH #R01GM099563

Invasion and Exclusion by Enterococcus faecalis in the Manduca gut community

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2012-12-07 → 2016-11-30
PIs
2

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NIH #R13GM090574

Toward Diversity: A Metagenomics Workshop for Undergraduate Cohorts

Amount
<$100K
Period
2010-09-01 → 2015-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NIH #T32HG003198

Training in Genomics and Proteomics Technologies

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2004-07-22 → 2014-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NSF #1148175

Individual PAESMEM Award: Jo Handelsman

Amount
<$100K
Period
2011-06-01 → 2013-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Yale University

NIH #RC1DK086831

Metagenetic analysis of microbial community behavior

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2009-09-30 → 2012-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at YALE UNIVERSITY

NSF #0938597

Individual PAESMEM Award: Jo Handelsman

Amount
<$100K
Period
2011-06-01 → 2012-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NSF #1041557

From phalanx to assassins: The commensal-to-pathogen switch in the lepidopteran gut microbial community

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2010-01-01 → 2011-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at Yale University

NSF #0924502

From phalanx to assassins: The commensal-to-pathogen switch in the lepidopteran gut microbial community

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2009-09-01 → 2010-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NSF #0618821

A New Wave of Scientific Teaching

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2006-09-01 → 2008-08-31
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIH #R01GM075830

Intracellular screens discovery:natural products*(RMI)

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2005-09-23 → 2008-07-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

NSF #0454823

SGER: Profile of Signal Molecules in a Soil Microbial Community

Amount
—
Period
2004-11-01 → 2006-10-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NSF #0132085

Microbial Observatories: Collaborative Research: A Cold Microbial Observatory: Collaborative Research in an Alaskan Boreal Forest Soil

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2002-02-01 → 2006-01-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NIH #R03AI042786

ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS FROM NOVEL MICROBIAL SOURCES

Amount
<$100K
Period
1998-05-01 → 2001-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

NIH #P41RR002301

CHARACTERIZATION OF ZMAR, ZWITTERMICIN RESISTANCE GENE FROM BACILLUS CEREUS

Amount
<$100K
Period
1999-03-01 → 2000-02-29
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

NSF #9156087

Biological Literacy Through Classroom Community

Amount
<$100K
Period
1992-04-15 → 1995-09-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

NSF #8819401

Mechanism of Antagonism of Oomycete Fungi by Bacillus cereu

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
1989-07-01 → 1992-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recent Public Signals

  1. New preprint: Nematicidal indole oxazoles and chemoattractants from soil bacteria2026-01-20
  2. New paper: Using cross-species co-expression to predict metabolic interactions in microbiomes (mSystems)2025-12-09
  3. New NSF award: Developing an Intervention to Foster Productive Failure in STEM College Courses2024-10-01

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