Author: Katy Heath
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 …
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.
New paper on the microbiome of Medicago!
New paper accepted tracking the nodule, root, and leaf microbiomes of the symbiosis model Medicago truncatula across three host genotypes grown in native soils! Find it here!
Symbiosis to reintegrate biology
Two things (or more), living together in close association, and making something special happen that is greater than the sum of its parts. What better topic to bring together an interdisciplinary team working on plants, bees, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and …