We wrap up four rad summer undergrad projects with posters and talks!
From left: Dave Li, Ana Montes, Kenny Sacks, Amartya Nalluri
Heath Lab News
You can evolve rhizobia?
Yes. Yes you can!
Check out these awesome preprints:
Rebecca has one up showing negative frequency-dependence on rhizobium partner quality (!) – is that how variation is maintained?!?!
Kevin shows that rhizobia locally adapt to drought, which in turn helps plants (!). WHAT?!
Our undergraduates are AWESOME!
Amartya, Dave, and Julienne presented their hard work at URS and IGB. Look at those proud mentors 🙂
Natalie defends!
Natalie’s super cool project shows how genetic variation in Rhizobium partner quality can influence not only the clover hosts, but neighboring grasses and clover-grass competitive dynamics.
David defends his PhD
His first paper just came out in mBio – look for another soon on phage resistance in Rhizobium and plasmid fusion and fission. Woo!
New paper!
Hats off to Connor and Allison from the Christian lab (University of Louisville) for leading this awesome review on aboveground-below ground microbial interactions!
Natalie presents her poster on the effects of Rhizobium plasmid evolution on legume-grass dynamics at ESA!
Kate gives an impressive final presentation on her summer experiment
Best of luck running and studying back in NY this year Kate – we will miss having you in the lab!
