Collaborators

SPIN workshop participants, 2019

The Sarracenia purpurea International Network (SPIN) is the result of a SNSF-funded workshop hosted by Dr. Sarah Gray at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in 2019. The list of the attendees of this workshop were S. purpurea researchers who were currently working either in North America or Europe. During the workshop, we learned about each other's expertise and discussed how to implement these skillsets into future S. purpurea research. Since then, SPIN has expanded to include researchers across the geographic range of S. purpurea, creating a solid foundation for the formation of collaborative projects among academic specialties and across continents.

Sarah M. Gray

Community Ecology andInquiline Food Web 
University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Leonora Bittleston

Species Interactions and Plant-associated microbes
Boise State University, Idaho, USA

Tom E. Miller

Community Ecology and evolutionInquiline Food Web
Florida State UniversityUSA

Erica B. Young

Ecophysiology andNutrient Ecology
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Ben Baiser

Community Ecology andEcological Networks
University of Florida, USA

Zac Freedman

Microbial Ecology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Jessica Bernandin

Microbial Ecology
Boise State University, Idaho, USA

Casey terHorst

Evolutionary Ecology andInquiline Food Web
Cal State, NorthridgeCalifornia, USA

Grace Cagle

Environmental Microbiology and Plant-Microbial Interaction
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Dominique Gravel

Theoretical Ecology andCommunity Ecology
University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Louis-Félix Bersier

Theoretical Ecology andCommunity Ecology
University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Catalina Cuellar- Gempeler

Microbial Ecology 
Cal Poly HumboldtCalifornia, USA

Nicholas Gotelli

Community Ecology
University of VermontUSA

Sydne Record

BiogeographyCommunity Ecology
University of MaineUSA

Jonathan Millett

Plant Ecology
Loughborough UniversityLeicestershire, UK 

Alicia McGrew

Community Ecology andFlowCam
Western Washington University, USA

Primrose Boynton

Mycology
Wheaton College,Massachusetts, USA

Brandon Shaw

Fungal Endophytes
Loughborough UniversityLeicestershire, UK 


Kerri Coon

MicrobiologySarracenia-mosquito system
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Aldo Arellano

MicrobiologySarracenia-mosquito system
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Mathilde Besson

Ecological Modeling and Eco-evolutionary dynamics




Azenor Bideault

Theoretical Modeling andtrophic interactions


Samantha Coinus

Community Ecology
University of Fribourg,Switzerland

Emmanuel Divinagracia

Microbiome sequencing
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Isadora Fluck

Species Diversity andSpatial Ecology
University of Florida, USA

Ellen Goddard

Plant Ecology
Loughborough UniversityLeicestershire, UK 


Shelby LeClare

Ecological Networks andDiversity
University of Florida, USA


Zachary Long

Biodiversity and Conservation

University of North Carolina, WilmingtonUSA

Sylvie Martin-Eberhardt

Plant-Insect Interactions
Michigan State University,USA

Olivia Mason

Metagenomics andMicrobial Ecology
Florida State University, USA

Amanda Northrop

Nutrient Ecology
Norwich University,Vermont, USA

Erica Holdmore

Bioinformatics andBig Data Analyses

Gerhard Thallinger

Bioinformatics
Graz University of Technology, Austria


Rachel Korn

Bioinformatics andBig Data Analyses



If you are interested in learning more about SPIN and the possibility of joining the network, 

please contact Sarah Gray at sarahmarie.gray at unifr.ch