Heath Lab News

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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.

Blurrier than anticipated. If you cannot see it, Little Fixer carries a sprig of grass and has a little moon on her belly.

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His first paper just came out in mBio – look for another soon on phage resistance in Rhizobium and plasmid fusion and fission. Woo!

I’m not crying – you’re crying. Note that the Peruvian Fixer carries saddlebags that contain plasmids and viruses on his alpaca.

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Hats off to Connor and Allison from the Christian lab (University of Louisville) for leading this awesome review on aboveground-below ground microbial interactions!

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

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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!