Collaborative NSF grant on intermontane refugia
December 2012: Collaborative NSF grant on intermontane refugia in the pacific NW, led by Dan Gavin with Solomon Dobrowski and Feng-Sheng Hu, is recommended for funding!
Heath Lab News
IB 405 starts spring 2013!
November 29, 2012: Start revving your Ecological Genetics engines: IB 405 starts spring 2013!
Science Politely
November 29, 2012: Science Politely, SIB graduate students’ contributions to Champaign-Urbana’s local online magazine Smile Politely, continues to attract top readership. Michelle Duennes’s article is the #1 article last week. Woot!
Featured on Smile Politely Radio
November 2, 2012: Katy and students (Lisa Powers, Dan Scholes, and Abby Berkey) from outreach course Amplify the Signal are featured on Smile Politely Radio (5:30pm Fridays on WEFT Community Radio, and by podcast)!
Online articles from graduate students
October 26, 2012: Online articles from graduate students in our course, “Amplify the Signal”, were introduced today and start going up next week! More updates to come!
Amanda Gorton’s manuscript
September 2012:
Amanda Gorton’s manuscript on QTL mapping of symbiosis traits has been accepted to G3!
Go Amanda!
Graduate Course: Amplify the Signal
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.
New MS student Christie Klinger
August 2012: New MS student Christie Klinger arrives in Champaign-Urbana. She will study rhizobium adaptation to nitrogen fertilization!
Collaborative grant funded by NSF
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!
Two new papers are available online
August 2012: Two new papers are available online (though not yet indexed in WoS): “Variation in the nodule transcriptome” and “Coevolutionary constraints”!