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Prof. David Armitage is an ecologist specializing in the interface of communities and ecosystems. He earned his master’s degree in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, focusing on forest bat communities’ responses to fire. Subsequently, he completed a PhD in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, investigating carnivorous plant-associated microbial community assembly. Afterward, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Notre Dame and Rice University, exploring species coexistence in fluctuating environments. Prof. Armitage’s current research encompasses the ecology of plant-microbe interactions, species coexistence in variable environments, and connections between communities and ecosystem processes. His interdisciplinary approach spans taxonomic groups such as bats, insects, plants, and microbes, integrating methodologies from biophysics, genomics, and machine learning.