Category: News
Summer hangs, part 2
We say thanks and good luck to recent UIUC grad Riley Popp, who is moving to Chicago to start a PhD program at Northwestern University! There was plenty of long boarding in his honor.
New paper!
New collaborative paper on dual-GWAS and population genomics of host-symbiont interactions was just released at Molecular Ecology! Check up on it!
Hot time, summer in the greenhouse
It’s been a busy summer in the greenhouse this year! Clover and Rhizobium and Methylobacterium and Medicago and Sinorhizobium and soybean and Colletotrichum – oh my!
New commentary out in mBio!
Heath KD, Batstone RT, Cerón Romero M, McMullen II JG. 2022. MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis. mBio, online. FIG 1 Levels of horizontal mobility lead to nested interactions among the key players in the symbiosis between leguminous plants, nodulating …
Rebecca will be setting up her new lab at McMaster University in July 2022!
Rebecca starts her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster. Wish her luck!
Labake earns Graduation with Distinction! Congrats!
Labake’s poster focuses on the correlations between easily measurable traits like chlorophyll content and nitrogen isotope ratios which more closely reflect biological nitrogen fixation.