Haley Burrill
- Doctoral Candidate
Contact Info
KBS 16 - Higuchi Hall
Biography —
Faculty Mentor: James Bever
Research Interests: Plant-microbial interactions, restoration
Hometown: Irvine, California
Education —
M.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 2020
B.S. in Plant Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2017
UC Conservation and Ecology in Practice, Immersive 50-day field course held at the University of California Reserve field stations across CA, 2016
Forest ecology research at the UC Santa Cruz Forest Ecology Research Plot (FERP) tagging and measuring woody plants, leaf litter surveys, herpetology surveys, tree tomography scans (Gilbert lab)
Selected Publications —
- Burrill, H.M., Wang, G.Z., and Bever, J.D. 2022. Rapid differentiation of microbial communities in response to prairie plant community manipulation field experiment. (in prep)
- Reynolds, H.S., Wagner, R., Wang, G., Burrill, H.M., Bever, J.D., Alexander, H.M. 2020. Effects of the soil microbiome on the demography of two annual prairie plants. Ecology and Evolution 10(13):6208-6222.
Selected Presentations —
- Burrill, HM. Rapid differentiation of soil-borne plant pathogen and bacteria communities in response to prairie plant community manipulation field experiment. Presented at the Ecological Society of America meeting, August 2021
- Burrill, HM. Rapid differentiation of soil-borne plant pathogen and bacteria communities in response to prairie plant community manipulation field experiment. Presented at the Midwest Ecology meeting, March 2021
- Burrill, HM. Does plant biodiversity drive fungal pathogen composition? Presented at the KU Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Recruitment Banquet, February 2020
- Burrill, HM. How fungal pathogens shape prairie plant diversity. Presented at the Mycological Society of America meeting, August 2019
Awards & Honors —
- Norris Center Student Grant, UC Santa Cruz (May 2015), Awarded to A. Horvath, K. Stevenson, B. Charles, H. Burrill