Category Archives: lab
Lab group meeting
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During this week’s lab group meeting we shared champagne and sparkling cider to celebrate Kim’s new NSF grant and Astha’s acceptance into Duke Medical School. Unfortunately, Astha was studying for midterms, so she wasn’t at the meeting.
Harvest complete!
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Can invasive legumes nodulate with a greater diversity of rhiozbial symbionts than non-invaders? We set out to test this idea in a large nodulation assay, comparing the diversity of rhizobial isolates that could nodulate each of four invasive and three … Continue reading
Outdoor group meeting
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Today we enjoyed the summery weather by holding our group meeting in the VLSB courtyard. The venue, complete with chalkboard, helped us work our way through the second chapter of Samir Okasha’s Evolution and the Levels of Selection. We’re finding … Continue reading
Hormogonia production by cyanobacteria
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Rebecca and Amy have been cranking – collecting tons of data on hormogonia production – and they’re getting some really cool results! They’ve been observing production of this dispersive stage by cultures isolated from symbiotic and non-symbiotic environments after they’ve … Continue reading
Erol Akçay visits lab
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Erol and Ellen are developing some models of nodulation rates in plants. We’ll be presenting some of our results in lab group meeting tomorrow.
Bodega Reserve
We do much of our current field work on legume-rhizobium interactions at Bodega Reserve. Bodega is one from among the amazing collection of research reserves managed by the UC Natural Reserve System.