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!
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! […]