Dan Buckley

Soil and Crop Sciences Section Head and Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor, Microbiology

I am a microbial ecologist in the Soil & Crop Sciences Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. I investigate the soil microbiome and its impacts on ecosystem health, the plants we grow, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

Interests

Microbial diversity

Bacterial population structure in soils

Recent Research

Many aspects of soil microbial communities are still a mystery and soil remains a fertile habitat for discovery. My research makes use of genomic tools to examine the microbial communities that live in soils, to explore their diversity, and to delineate the mechanisms by which they influence environmental processes in terrestrial ecosystems

Courses Taught

BIOG 2990: Introduction to Research Methods in Biology
PLSCS/BIOMI 1120: Microbes, the Earth, and Everything
BIOMI 2900: General Microbiology Lecture

Contact Information

235 Emerson
Ithaca, NY 14853

(607) 255-1716

dhb28 [at] cornell.edu

School & Section
- School of Integrative Plant Science
- Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Graduate Fields
Education
- Doctorate
  Michigan State University
  2000
- Bachelor of Science
  University of Rochester
  1994
More information
- Buckley Lab
- Google Scholar profile and publications

Dan in the news

News

August 9, 2024

Field day provides 'inside scoop' on crop research

More than 150 farmers, educators, consultants and researchers viewed the latest Cornell field crop research at 2024 Musgrave Research Farm Field Day in Aurora, N.Y., August 1. "Attendees traveled from all over New York to get the inside scoop on...

Biological Field Station
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Musgrave Research Farm

News

November 22, 2021

Study digs up roles bacteria play in global carbon cycle

Cornell researchers have developed an innovative technique to track microbes and understand the various ways they process soil carbon, findings that add to our knowledge of how bacteria contribute to the global carbon cycle.

School of Integrative Plant Science
Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Bacteria

Dan Buckley

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