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GEMS trainee Ed Hsieh defends his dissertation!
14 October 2024
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!
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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.
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Join us for National STEM Day Nov 9!
23 September 2024
GEMS trainees and faculty are teaming up with community partners to bring fun science-themed activities to children of all ages. Our partner Illinois Science Explorers works with the Don Moyer Girls and Boys Club at the Martens Center in Champaign, Illinois. We will provide hands-on activities related to GEMS science such as plants, pollinators, microbes, […]
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GEMS educator professional development event
27 June 2024
The GEMS education team hosted a science teaching professional development event on June 17-20, 2024. This event marked a week of learning for local and regional K-12 science teachers, science and education university faculty, and GEMS graduate and undergraduate students. Over 25 people gathered at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus to discuss topics in […]
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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 […]
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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!
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New Paper Alert!
10 January 2024
GEMS Graduate Student Chris Robinson’s work was published this month in ISME Comms. Check it out!
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Recent grad’s work makes a splash
20 August 2023
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! […]