Lab Members:
Hal Halvorson - Assistant Professor
Hal earned a B.A. in Biology and Chemistry at St. Olaf College in 2011 and his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Arkansas in 2016. After his Ph.D., he spent 3 years as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Kevin Kuehn at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is thrilled to return to Arkansas and continue his science. In his free time, Hal loves to game, listen to contemporary rock music, and run around outside.


Tori Hebert - M.S. Student
Tori earned her B.S. in Marine Biology at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2019. She spent 3 years working in the Kuehn laboratory, where she completed an REU project and wrote her Honors Thesis on fungal colonization and decomposition of standing dead leaves in freshwater marshes. Tori is studying the effects of land use on microbial interactions during leaf decomposition in Arkansas streams.



Current undergraduate students in the lab:
Jackson Deese
Taylor Coulson
Hunter Strom
Megan Harsh



Other current affiliates:
Ethan Nettleton - M.S Student @ Southern Miss
Ethan is continuing his undergraduate research project as his M.S. Thesis in Kevin Kuehn's lab at Southern Miss. His project investigates the effects of light on wood decomposition in lake littoral settings. Ethan hopes to attend medical school after he finishes his degree.







Saysha Sebren - Ph.D. Student @ Southern Miss
Saysha is beginning her Ph.D. in 2019 in Kevin Kuehn's lab at Southern Miss. Based on both past and future experiments, her project will use modern bioinformatics and 'omics' tools to study the interplay between microbial community dynamics and leaf decomposition under contrasting light regimes.






Past affiliates:
Cody Pope - current M.S. Student @ University of Florida
Taylor Price, M.S. - current Ph.D. Student @ University of Minnesota
Cheyenne Brady, M.S. - Hospital Technician in Hattiesburg, MS

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