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Jennifer gave a great talk (there was even a bark cake!) followed by a successful defense of her dissertation. Soon she will move to to Michigan State for her postdoc with Sarah Evans at Kellogg Biological Station!

Oct 2018 – Rebecca moves from Toronto, Canada, to take up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB). She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Megan Frederickson. She will continue to …

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Alex, who worked in the lab as an undergrad, just started his master’s degree in plant biology. Alex will be working on coevolution and population genomics in the legume-rhizobium mutualism.

To test a lab for IB 204 (genetics)  Alex, Natalie, Hanna, and Katy (not pictured) collected spit for a DNA extraction protocol.

Jennifer and Natalie went to the International Mycological Congress in Puerto Rico to learn a lot about fungi and eat a LOT of mofongo.

Hanna Lindgren joins the lab as a postdoc. Hanna did her PhD at the University of Helsinki and has previously worked as a postdoc at the Field Museum in Chicago where she studied symbiotic fungi. Hanna is co-advised by Amy …

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February 2018: Natalie Christian joins the lab as a postdoc! Natalie did her PhD at Indiana University and is co-advised by Posy Busby at Oregon State University. She will be studying interactions between foliar endophytic fungi and rhizobia bacteria in …

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Alex Riley is the latest undergrad to join the Heath lab, he’ll be working with Dr. Heath and Dr. Marshall-Colon (also in plant biology) on partner quality variation in the legume-rhizobium mutualism.