Erica Houser

Graduate Student

I graduated from the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology in May 2023 and joined the Montgomery lab as field tech and lab manager. In Fall 2024, I started a Ph.D. program in Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. I am interested in forest ecology, plant-microbe interactions, and how math and computing can be applied to answer biological questions. I am originally from the Black Hills of South Dakota, and in my free time I enjoy drawing plants and fungi, biking, and learning sick skateboard tricks (or just falling a lot).

Erica