Ashley Shade, Ph.D.

Ashley Shade, Ph.D.

French National Center for Scientific Research

Ashley Shade, Ph.D., received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, Pa.) and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Microbiology Doctoral Training Program in 2010. Afterwards Shade was a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation postdoctoral fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation at Yale University.

In 2014, she started her independent research program at Michigan State University, where she was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor in 2021. In 2022, she was recruited by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and moved her research program to the Laboratoire d’Ecologie Microbienne at the University of Lyon, France. Shade’s research aims to understand, predict and manage microbial communities to achieve resilience to climate change and other environmental disturbances.