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.