MSE Speaker Series 2025 and Social Hours
“Healthy
Soils: Our Hope for a Warming World” presented by Dr. Kristen DeAngelis, PhD
September 24, 2025
About the speaker: Kristen got her PhD in Microbiology
from the University of California Berkeley, and was trained in microbial
ecology and environmental microbiology as a postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory and at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. Born in Massachusetts,
she has worked at UMass Amherst since 2011, where she is the lead of the
Molecular Microbial Ecology Lab in the department of Microbiology. In the past
5 years alone, she became an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of
Microbiology, she’s been awarded Distinguished Lecturer from the American
Society for Microbiology and UMass, she received the Chancellor’s Medal from
UMass, and she was the Harvard Forest Bullard Fellow. Kristen loves teaching (and learning)
bioinformatics and computer programming, crosswords, drawing, and hiking
western Mass with her two kids and crazy dog Suki. Kristen was one of the
earliest members of MSE, contributing to a science communications piece and the
paper which introduced MSE to the world!
