Suzanne M. Fleishman, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Root Biology
201 Tyson Building (Office)
213 Tyson Building (Lab)

University Park, PA 16802

Areas of Expertise

  • Root ecology
  • Rhizosphere Microbiome
  • Cover Crops
  • Ecophysiology/Abiotic Stress
  • Agroecosystem Services

Education

  • PhD Ecology, Penn State (2022)
  • MS Horticulture, Penn State (2018)
  • BS Environmental Science, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013)

Publications

Getting to the root of root–microbe interactions
Science Progress, King, William, Hayward, Regan, Goebel, Marc, Fleishman, Suzanne, Bauerle, Taryn, Bell, T, 2024

Functionally discrete fine roots differ in microbial assembly, microbial functional potential, and produced metabolites
Plant, Cell and Environment, King, William, Yates, Caylon, Cao, Lily, O'Rourke-Ibach, Sean, O'Rourke‐Ibach, Sean, Fleishman, Suzanne, Richards, Sarah, Centinari, Michela, Hafner, Benjamin, Goebel, Marc, Bauerle, Taryn, Kim, Young‐Mo, Nicora, Carrie, Anderton, Christopher, Eissenstat, D, Bell, T, 2023

Assessing microbial communities across the fine root landscape
Journal of Experimental Botany, Fleishman, Suzanne, Centinari, Michela, Bell, Terrence, Eissenstat, D, 2023

Cover crops and a devigorating rootstock can impart substantial agroecosystem services to high-resource vineyards: A multi-year study
Agro-Ecosystems, Fleishman, Suzanne, Eissenstat, David M., Hoffer, Grant, Centinari, Michela, 2023

The Age of Absorptive Roots Impacts Root-Adjacent Microbial Composition in Grapevines
Phytobiomes Journal, Persico, Meredith, Fleishman, Suzanne, Eissenstat, D, Bell, T, Centinari, Michela, 2023

Functionally-explicit sampling can answer key questions about the specificity of plant–microbe interactions
Standards in Genomic Sciences, Fleishman, Suzanne, Eissenstat, David M., Bell, Terrence, Centinari, Michela, 2022

Undervine groundcover substantially increases shallow but not deep soil carbon in a temperate vineyard
Agro-Ecosystems, Fleishman, Suzanne, Bock, Hayden, Eissenstat, David M., Centinari, Michela, 2021

Tree‐induced alterations to soil properties and rhizoplane‐associated bacteria following 23 years in a common garden
Plant and Soil, Yates, Caylon, Guo, Jing, Bell, Terrence H., Fleishman, Suzanne, Fleishman, Suzanne, Bell, T, Bock, Hayden, Boch, Hayden, Trexler, Ryan, Eissenstat, David M., Centinari, Michela, 2021

The hierarchy of root branching order determines bacterial composition, microbial carrying capacity and microbial filtering
Communications Biology, King, William, Yates, Caylon, Guo, Jing, Fleishman, Suzanne, Trexler, Ryan, Centinari, Michela, Bell, Terrence, Eissenstat, David, 2021

Rootstock vigor shifts aboveground response to groundcover competition in young grapevines
Plant and Soil, Fleishman, Suzanne, Eissenstat, David M., Centinari, Michela, 2019