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.
Heath Lab News
Rebecca, Liana, and Katy’s new paper is featured in PNAS Journal Club
https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/cheating-may-rare-symbiotic-relationships
Allison and Yoel wrap up their summer REU projects with awesome talks at the iBio symposium.
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.
Summer hangs
New paper!
New collaborative paper on dual-GWAS and population genomics of host-symbiont interactions was just released at Molecular Ecology!
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 Proc B paper!
Rebecca (now at MacMaster), Liana Burghardt (Penn State) and Katy have a new paper out in Proceedings B on the signatures of host-microbe cooperation (rather than conflict) in the many loci underlying partner quality variation in Sinorhizobium!
New commentary out in mBio!
FIG 1 Levels of horizontal mobility lead to nested interactions among the key players in the symbiosis between leguminous plants, nodulating rhizobial bacteria, the mobile genetic elements (MGEs) they host, and the symbiosis (sym) genes.