Heath Lab News

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.

Labake presenting her SIB Distinction project in Spring 2022

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

James giving a talk on his graduate work (stolen from his LinkedIn page)

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

New folks were welcomed, great science was discussed, and yummy food was consumed.

Learn more about GEMS here: https://symbiosis.illinois.edu