Jada, Destiny, and Nur all graduated this past weekend. These three amazing women have all made important contributions to our lab and we couldn’t be prouder. Watch out world – here they come and they are gonna slay!

Labake will begin at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in the fall. Trust me – if she ever walks into your exam room, you’re in good hands.

Former undergraduate James Kosmopoulos’s thesis project is now available at the Canadian Journal of Microbiology. Congrats James! https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjm-2023-0209

Some of us work, and some of us provide entertainment.

Former undergrad James Kosmopoulos (currently PhD student in Madison) shows that nodule-inhabiting endophytic bacteria can inhibit nodulation and plant growth! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.15.567292v1

Sierra talked about symbiosis and her graduate research at Riggs Beer in Urbana this weekend.