GEMS PhD candidate in the Heath and Vanderpool Lab, David Vereau Gorbitz, successfully defended his thesis entitled “Plasmid evolution and transmission of the nitrogen-fixing mutualist Rhizobium leguminosarum”! Congratulations, Dr. Vereau Gorbitz!

Ivan Sosa Marquez, Katy Heath, and Amy Marshall-Colon are featured in an article by the Illinois News Bureau highlighting their recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article by Diana Yates discusses the researchers’ work to gain a better understanding of the interactions within the root nodules of legumes between […]

GEMS PhD candidate in the Heath Lab, Ivan Sosa Marquez, successfully defended his thesis entitled “Modularity and function of symbiotic genetic systems”. Congratulations, Dr. Sosa Marquez!

GEMS PhD candidate, Mackenzie Caple, from the Lau Lab has successfully defended her thesis entitled “Cooperation under changing conditions: Tests of mutualism theory in legume-rhizobium systems”. Congratulations, Dr. Caple!

GEMS PhD candidate in the Whitaker Lab, Laura Suttenfield, has successfully defended her thesis entitled “The evolution of transmission mode of a temperate transposable virus of P. aeruginosa and its effect on the host”. Congratulations, Dr. Suttenfield!