September 2012: Amanda Gorton’s manuscript on QTL mapping of symbiosis traits has been accepted to G3! Go Amanda!

August 2012: Katy and Elizabeth’s graduate course on science communication, “Amplify the Signal”, gets a running start with 21 enthusiastic and impressively-experienced graduate students! We are writing online articles, doing radio spots, and working with the Orpheum on outreach.

August 2012: New MS student Christie Klinger arrives in Champaign-Urbana. She will study rhizobium adaptation to nitrogen fertilization!

August 2012: Collaborative grant with Astrid Ferrer and Jim Dalling is funded by NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity. We will be dodging the crocodiles in Coiba. Not too shabby!

August 2012: Two new papers are available online (though not yet indexed in WoS): “Variation in the nodule transcriptome” and “Coevolutionary constraints”!

June 2012: New paper with Katie McGhee on “Coevolutionary constraints” is accepted to PLoS ONE!

June 2012: Katy and Elizabeth Bagley will collaborate and offer a graduate seminar focused on NSF’s Broader Impacts criterion. Outreach activities promise to be authentic and fun!

March 2012: New paper with John Stinchcombe on “Coevolutionary genetic variation in the nodule transcriptome” is accepted to Molecular Ecology!