Issue 05 Winter 2025 Inside this Issue Note from the Editor: Website Welcome Hello, GEMS, and Happy New Year! If this is your first time looking through the new website, welcome! If this is not your first time seeing the new website, you get my brand new, totally official “Best GEM” award. A big thank […]
Trainee David Vereau Gorbitz (Heath/Vanderpool labs, UIUC) has just released his first pre-print on BioRxiv. The paper, titled “Plasmid transmission dynamics and evolution of partner quality in a natural population of Rhizobium leguminosarum“, details his efforts to more deeply understand plasmid populations in a model symbiont. Read the paper below!
Multiple GEMS trainees from the IGOH (Infection Genomics for One Health) theme at the UIUC IGB recently traveled to Chicago to present at World of Genomics, a large outreach event at the Museum of Science and Industry. GEMS Trainee Sierra Bedwell designed activities representing One Health in collaboration with the IGB Outreach team and recruited […]
GEMS PhD candidate Ed Hsieh presented his doctoral dissertation today, entitled: “Context is key: How interactive stressors affect honey bee physiology across caste and life stage”. Ed was a PhD candidate in the Dolezal lab at UIUC. Congratulations, Dr. Hsieh, and we can’t wait to see what you do next!
GEMS Trainee Laura Suttenfield recently released a new paper in mSystems, where it was named Editor’s Choice! The paper is entitled Phage-mediated resolution of genetic conflict alters the evolutionary trajectory of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lysogens and describes her work in the lab of PI Rachel Whitaker.
In a review article published in Nature Reviews Microbiology in late 2023, two GEMS alumni from the Newton Lab at Indiana University got a shout-out. Delaney Miller’s 2021 article in MBio, entitled A Bacterial Symbiont Protects Honey Bees from Fungal Disease, was referenced, as well as Audrey Parish’s 2022 ISME article Honey bee symbiont buffers […]
GEMS postdoc Dr. Lílian Caesar’s work in the Newton Lab at IU was published this month in mSystems!
GEMS Graduate Student Chris Robinson’s work was published this month in ISME Comms. Check it out!
The work of recent graduate Dr. Kevin Ricks was just featured on the NSF’s website! According to the statistics put out by the journal, Kevin’s paper has already been downloaded over 300 times, mentioned by ten news outlets, and been cited once! And it’s only been out for four months! Great job, Kevin and team! […]