Heath Lab News

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

The multi-talented Crissy Gallick has left the building (sniff) to pursue a new position at the EPA in Kansas City. Go Crissy! We will miss you!

Crissy visiting the soybeans

We have pizza and celebrate Crissy on Halloween.
And yes, Ivan is dressed as a burrito.

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

Former MS student Alex Riley’s paper on population genetic structure in rhizobium divided genomes is out in Molecular Ecology. Woohoo!

Discordant population structure between the chromosome and pSymA in Sinorhizobium meliloti

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News
Karla winging it.
Jada (above) and Karla (below) painting it on!

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News
The best part about the Heath lab is how everyone pitches in when harvest is a bitch. From left: Patrick, Izzy, Crissy, Sierra, Yoel, Ivan.

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

Check out a new collaborative paper with Jen Lau and Wendy Yang (and many others!) on the ecosystem-level impacts of rhizobium evolution, which just came out in Oecologia.

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/cheating-may-rare-symbiotic-relationships

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News
Yoel: phenotyping results from some novel mutants
Allison: Methylobacterium x rhizobium interactions

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News

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.

From left to right: Mario, Abdel, Riley, Yoel, Sierra (kneeling), Izzy, Katy (kneeling), David, Crissy (kneeling), Allison, Karla
Riley teaches the youngins
Golden hour chilling at the elementary school

by Katy HeathPosted on Posted in News
From left: Izzy, Yoel, Ivan, Riley, Allison, Abi, Katy, Sierra, Crissy