People

PI; Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

Jamie is a community ecologist with a love for fungi, plants, mycorrhizas and wetlands (especially peatlands). He is in this business because he enjoys learning about cool weird things out in nature, both aboveground and belowground. He also really loves teaching and working with students.

Jamie’s Google Scholar page , CV

PhD Candidate, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry

Olivia is focusing on the restoration of culturally significant wetland plants and their associated fungi in Southeastern MA. She focuses on Atlantic white cedars, their mycorrhizas and the roles of fungi in cedar swamp restoration. She also works on soft-stem bulrush, another wetland plant. Her work is interdisciplinary and combines mycorrhizal ecology, restoration, plant ecology, and wetlands. Olivia is also a science educator, community organizer, native plant, bird, and insect enthusiast, and loves being outside whenever possible.

PhD Candidate, Syracuse University

PhD Candidate, Syracuse University

PhD student, Syracuse University

MS student, SUNY ESF

Corey graduated from Northwest Indian College with a BS in Native Environmental Science, and joined our lab in fall 2025 (co-advised with Madeline Nyblade at SUNY ESF). Corey is interested in understanding the functions and roles of ericoid mycorrhizas in their ecosystems, namely in sites where Ericaceous berry plants grow, and is also generally interested learning methods for mapping mycorrhizal communities and measuring diversity.

MS Student, SUNY ESF

Danny is a MS student at SUNY ESF advised by Martin Dovciak and Nathan Kiel, and is an honorary member of the Lamit lab. His research is focused on potential constraints on the climate-driven upslope migration of tree species in the northeastern U.S. mountains. In his collaboration with the Lamit lab, he is exploring the ability of understory plant species to serve as sources of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculum for sugar maple seedlings attempting to establish at higher elevations. Danny previously earned a BS in natural resource management from Oregon State University and worked as a restoration ecologist in southern California but missed the forests of the east coast where he grew up.

Research Technician

Max is a recent grad from SUNY ESF, helping grad students with field work and working on a variety of existing lab projects.  He is interested in the understudied aspects of fungal ecology and symbiosis.

Undergrad, Syracuse University

Caitlin is interested in the influence of nutrient enrichment on arbuscular mycorrhizas of Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), which form unique peatlands in coastal regions of Eastern North America. She is performing a greenhouse research project as an SU Distinction student funded by an SU SOURCE fellowship.

Undergrad, Syracuse University

Kate is new member of the lab helping with root and soil sample processing.  She is interested in international policy and nutrient cycling.  She will work with the lab for her Distinction program research project.  Kate’s also doing multiple study abroad programs in her time at SU and is looking at bringing that into her research.

Undergrad, SUNY ESF

Liam did a short internship in our lab in winter 2025 while a student at Onondoga Community College, came back to participated in the summer 2025 REU program at SU, and now as an undergraduate at SUNY ESF has stayed on in our lab. His project focuses on the relationship between root order and mycorrhizal colonization in small herbaceous plants of wetland and upland habitats.

Undergrad, SUNY ESF

Miles is a lover of fungi helping the lab with sample processing and greenhouse projects.  Miles plans on going into research themself, and this is a good learning environment.

Undergrad, Syracuse University

Julia is helping in the lab with sample processing, nutrient analysis prep, and anything else that needs help.  She is interested in environmental policy.

Undergrad, SUNY ESF

Evelyn is a motivated undergrad helping in the lab with sample processing and anything else we need a hand with.  She’s done a lot of work with soil pH and helped out with summer data collection in wetlands.

Undergrad, SUNY ESF

Calvin is helping in the lab with sample processing and anything else we need a hand with.  He’s done a lot of soil pH measurements and spent many days out in wetlands in Rome, NY collecting roots, measuring plot characteristics, and counting moss.  He is also TAing Mycology at SUNY ESF this semester.