Heath Lab News

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Note the audiences includes former GEMS trainees John McMullen and Mackenzie Caple!

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

Best of luck running and studying back in NY this year Kate – we will miss having you in the lab!

Kate models her GEMS t-shirt as she visits her plants before she heads back to Cornell!

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Everyone loves science summer school

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It is bittersweet that after many years of hard work, this collaborative paper (truly a co-lead situation) finally came out in PNAS right after we lost our friend, colleague, and collaborator Amy. This paper was such a labor of love, and we’re deeply thankful to have had the pleasure of working and writing with this amazing human. Love you, babe.

Katy (left) and Amy (right), with photobomb by our grad student Alex Riley

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2411831122

We looked for genetically-variable sets of genes (modules) in plants and rhizobia that were correlated with each other and plant growth.

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Cole has spent the summer studying the phenotypic impacts of phage resistance on plants!

Mustaches abound. Cole (left) with his mentor Chase (right). Great job guys!

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Introducing Ivan’s bespoke Fixer: Rey Fijador!

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Chase graduated with highest distinction from the Integrative Biology Honors program. He will be continuing his education at the Roswell Park Cancer sciences PhD program through SUNY Buffalo. In his time in lab he used bioinformatics to study how environmental pressures shape the genomes of R. leguminosarum.

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Ivan and Karla’s new paper is available in FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Congratulations both!!!

https://academic.oup.com/femsec/advance-article/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiaf053/8129725?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=femsec&utm_medium=email

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Meghan and Natalie both received the John R. Laughnan award in Plant Biology! WOO!

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Amartya received the Oliver J. Bell Merit Scholarship in Integrative Biology this past weekend. WOO!