Natalie Belloso joins the lab!
Natalie is working with Katy and Wendy Yang (Plant Bio) to study the short and long-term legacy effects of nitrogen fertilizer on soil nitrogen cycling processes and legume-rhizobium interactions! Yay!
Heath Lab News
Pretty in Pink: Community engagement with Methylobacterium!
Allison develops an activity on biofilms and density as part of FULL STEAM AHEAD at the new Martens Center in Champaign!
New paper!
Check out our new mBio paper on the complex and context-dependent genetics of symbiotic extended phenotypes!
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.01823-22
David teaches kids about adaptation
Check out the fantastic community engagement program Cena y Ciencias (thanks to SACNAS, Ivan, and many others)
Karla successfully defends her MS thesis!
WOOT! Karla did an amazing job today presenting her masters work on the phenotypic effects of soybean endophytes!
Crissy moves to Kansas City!
The multi-talented Crissy Gallick has left the building (sniff) to pursue a new position at the EPA in Kansas City. Go Crissy! We will miss you!
And yes, Ivan is dressed as a burrito.
New paper!
Former MS student Alex Riley’s paper on population genetic structure in rhizobium divided genomes is out in Molecular Ecology. Woohoo!
Inoculating soybeans with other soybeans!
Harvest time
New paper: rhizobium evolution feeds back on soil nitrogen!
Check out a new collaborative paper with Jen Lau and Wendy Yang (and many others!) on the ecosystem-level impacts of rhizobium evolution, which just came out in Oecologia.
