From left: Dave Li, Ana Montes, Kenny Sacks, Amartya Nalluri

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 …

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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.

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

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

Best of luck running and studying back in NY this year Kate – we will miss having you in the lab!

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, …

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