Kristin Dolan, PhD

Assistant Director, Operations and Strategy
Medicine
+1 415 476-6667

Dr. Kristin Dolan is the Assistant Director for the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (BCMM), where she oversees operations, strategy, and all program development for a community of over 130 researchers and annual budget of $5M. Previously, Kristin served as a Program Manager in the UCSF Research Development Office where she supported campus wide strategic initiatives and provided proposal strategy input, project management, technical writing/consulting, and template language for large, multi-investigator grant proposals.

Kristin received her B.Sc. in Environmental Studies and Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, studying microbial community response to global climate change, in the lab of Dr. Jennifer B.H. Martiny at UC Irvine.

Publications: 

A general biodiversity–function relationship is mediated by trophic level

Oikos

O'Connor MI, Gonzalez A, Byrnes JEK, Cardinale BJ, Duffy JE, Gamfeldt L, Griffin JN, Hooper D, Hungate BA, Paquette A, Thompson PL, Dee LE and Dolan KL

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. S. Levin, editor

Microbial Biodiversity

Chase A, KL Dolan, DJ Mohamed, and JBH Martiny

Temporal variation overshadows the response of leaf litter microbial communities to simulated global change.

The ISME journal

Matulich KL, Weihe C, Allison SD, Amend AS, Berlemont R, Goulden ML, Kimball S, Martiny AC, Martiny JB

Elemental stoichiometry of Fungi and Bacteria strains from grassland leaf litter

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Mouginot C, Kiwamura R, Matulich KL, Berlemont R, Allison SD, Amend AS, Martiny AC

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. S. Levin, editor

Microbial Biodiversity

Matulich KL, DJ Mohamed, and JBH Martiny

Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience.

Frontiers in microbiology

Shade A, Peter H, Allison SD, Baho DL, Berga M, Bürgmann H, Huber DH, Langenheder S, Lennon JT, Martiny JB, Matulich KL, Schmidt TM, Handelsman J

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change.

Nature

Hooper DU, Adair EC, Cardinale BJ, Byrnes JE, Hungate BA, Matulich KL, Gonzalez A, Duffy JE, Gamfeldt L, O'Connor MI

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems.

American journal of botany

Cardinale BJ, Matulich KL, Hooper DU, Byrnes JE, Duffy E, Gamfeldt L, Balvanera P, O'Connor MI, Gonzalez A

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