New Paper

  • New GEMS Preprint!

    22 October 2024

    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!

  • New paper named Editor’s Choice

    30 September 2024

    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.

  • Multiple GEMS researchers cited in new review

    1 February 2024

    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 […]

  • New Paper Alert!

    23 January 2024

    GEMS postdoc Dr. Lílian Caesar’s work in the Newton Lab at IU was published this month in mSystems!

  • New Paper Alert!

    10 January 2024

    GEMS Graduate Student Chris Robinson’s work was published this month in ISME Comms. Check it out!