Dr. Haney’s research focuses on interactions between beneficial plant-associated microbes (the “microbiome”) and plant growth and disease resistance. She received her B.S. in Plant Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from Stanford. She worked at Harvard as a postdoc developing a model system to study plant-microbiome interactions prior to joining the UBC faculty in 2016. Dr. Haney holds the Canada Research Chair in plant-microbiome interactions.