Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois

• Doctorate of Philosophy
• Plant Biology - Weed Science, May 2015
• Dissertation Title: A comparative study of the population dynamics of four Amaranthaceae species.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois

• Master of Science
• Plant Biology, December 2011
• Thesis Title: The competitive response of Panicum virgatum cultivars to non-native invasive species.

Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar, Virginia

• Bachelor of Science
• Biology, May 2009

Total: $13,742,500; Lead PI: $2,103,500

Outstanding Weed Technology Reviewer of the Year Award, 2020

Outstanding Paper of the Year in Weed Science Award: “Seedbank and field emergence of weeds in glyphosate-resistant cropping systems in the United States,” 2016

Invasive Species Initiatives Award Recipient, 2015

Sigma Xi Annual Poster Winner (SIUC Chapter), 2014,2015

Todd Fink Memorial Award, 2005-2009

Memberships in Professional Associations:

• Weed Science Society of America
• Southern Weed Science Society
• Crop Science Society of America
• Sigma Xi
• Ecological Society of America

Service:

• Crop Science Undergraduate Advisor
• College of Agriculture Mentor
• Letters to a Pre-Scientist penpal

Committees Served On:

LSU AgCenter/LSU

• Inter-Institutional Biological and Recombinant DNA Safety Committee (2019-2023)
• LSU Faculty Senate (2019-2022)
• LSU Smoking, Tobacco, Inhalant, Vaping Committee (2019-2021)
• SPESS Scholarship Committee (2017-present)
• SPESS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2017- present)

Professional

• WSSA Secretary (2021-2024)
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Agronomy (2020-present)
• Southern Cover Crop Council Conference Committee Co-chair (2020-2023)
• WSSA Website Committee Chair (2019-2022)
• WSSA Development Committee (2019-2022)
• WSSA Publications Board Committee (2019-2022)
• WSSA Standardized Plant Names Subcommittee (2019-2022)
• Sigma Xi Secretary, LSU Chapter (2019-present)
• Sigma Xi Delegate, LSU Chapter (2018-present)
• Land Use and Sustainability Work Group, Sweet Briar College (2016-present)

Selected Publications:

Patterson KM, LM Schwartz-Lazaro, G LaBiche, DO Stephenson, IV. 2021. Effects of narrow-windrow burning on weed dynamics in soybean in Louisiana. Frontiers in Agronomy 3:730280. DOI: 10.3389/fagro.2021.730280

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, LS Shergill, JA Evans, MV Bagavathiannan, SC Beam, MD Bish, JA Bond, KW Bradley, WS Curran, AS Davis, WJ Everman, ML Flessner, SC Haring, NR Jordan, NE Korres, JL Lindquist, JK Norsworthy, TL Sanders, LE Steckel, MJ VanGessel, B Young, SB Mirsky. 2021. Seed shattering phenology at soybean harvest of economically important weeds in multiple regions of the United States. Part 3: drivers of seed shatter. Weed Science. Accepted

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, LS Shergill, JA Evans, MV Bagavathiannan, SC Beam, MD Bish, JA Bond, KW Bradley, WS Curran, AS Davis, WJ Everman, ML Flessner, SC Haring, NR Jordan, NE Korres, JL Lindquist, JK Norsworthy, TL Sanders, LE Steckel, MJ VanGessel, B Young, SB Mirsky. 2021. Seed shattering phenology at soybean harvest of economically important weeds in multiple regions of the United States. Part 2: grass species. Weed Science 69:104-110. DOI: 10.1017/wsc.2020.79

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, LS Shergill, JA Evans, MV Bagavathiannan, SC Beam, MD Bish, JA Bond, KW Bradley, WS Curran, AS Davis, WJ Everman, ML Flessner, SC Haring, NR Jordan, NE Korres, JL Lindquist, JK Norsworthy, TL Sanders, LE Steckel, MJ VanGessel, B Young, SB Mirsky. 2021. Seed shattering phenology at soybean harvest of economically important weeds in multiple regions of the United States. Part 1: broadleaf species. Weed Science 69:95-103. DOI: 10.1017/wsc.2020.80

Shergill LS, LM Schwartz-Lazaro, R Leon, VJ Ackroyd, M Flessner, M Bagavathiannan, W Everman, JK Norsworthy, MJ VanGessel, S Mirsky. 2020. Current outlook and future research needs for harvest weed seed control in North American cropping systems. Pest Management Science 76:3887-3895. DOI 10.1002/ps.5986

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, JT Copes. 2019. A Review of the Soil Seedbank from a Weed Scientists Perspective. Agronomy 9: 369. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy9070369

Gage KL, LM Schwartz-Lazaro. 2019. Shifting the paradigm: an ecological systems approach to weed management. Agriculture 9: 137. DOI: 10.3390/agriculture9080179

Walsh MJ, JC Broster, LM Schwartz-Lazaro, JK Norsworthy, AS Davis, BD Tidemann, HJ Beckie, DJ Lyon, N Soni, P Neve, MV Bagavathiannan. 2017. Opportunities and challenges for harvest weed seed control in global cropping systems. Pest Management Science. DOI: 10.1002/ps.4802

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, JK Norsworthy, LE Steckel, DO Stephenson, IV, KW Bradley, JA Bond. 2017. A Midsouthern consultant’s survey on weed management practices in soybean. Weed Technology 32: 116-125. DOI: 10.1017/wet.2017.109

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, JK Norsworthy, MJ Walsh, MV Bagavathiannan. 2017. Efficacy of the integrated Harrington Seed Destructor on weeds of soybean and rice production systems in the southern United States. Crop Science 57: 1-7. DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2017.03.0210

Schwartz-Lazaro LM, JK Green, JK Norsworthy. 2017. Seed retention of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) and barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) in soybean. Weed Technology 31: 617-622. DOI: 10.1017/wet.2017.25

• Weed ecology and biology
• Integrated weed management
• Herbicide resistance

Graduate Students (current and former)

• 4 M.S. Thesis
• 5 Ph.D.
• 3 Dean's Representative Committee Member

Primary Lecturer (LSU)

• AGRO 2025 Introduction to Crop Science
• AGRO 3025 Advanced Principles of Crop Protection
• AGRO 4001 Field Plot Techniques
• AGRO 4070 Weed Science and the Environment

Guest Lecturer

• Special Topics: Agronomy Research - Louisiana State University
• Principles of Weed Control - University of Arkansas
• Principles of Ecology - Southern Illinois University
• Plant Diversity - Southern Illinois University
• Quantitative Ecology - Southern Illinois University
• Research Experience for Undergraduates - Southern Illinois University

Lab Instructor

• Weeds and Their Control - Southern Illinois University
• Plants and Society - Southern Illinois University
• General Biology - Southern Illinois University
• Plant Biology - Sweet Briar College

Louisiana State University AgCenter Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Assistant Professor - Weed Science and Agronomy August 2017 to Present

University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas

Post-Doctoral Research Associate July 2015 to July 2017

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois

Graduate Research Assistant January 2012 to May 2015

Graduate Teaching Assistant August 2009 to December 2011