Louis was selected as the recipient of the Lisa A. Smith Endowed Graduate Fellowship! This fellowship recognizes Louis’s outstanding academic achievements and potential in his field of study, and it is among the highest honors bestowed by UVA’s Graduate School.
It’s out! Featuring amazing contributions by our faculty, trainees, and staff
Members of the lab (upper left featuring Abbey, Juliana, and friend of the lab Rosel upper left) made an impressive showing at the annual Halloween Party. Congratulations to Abbey for winning the prize for best baked good! Cupcakes featured above.
Tessa, Juliana, Abbey, and Schubin attended SEPEEG at Clemson! Congrats to Schubin on his first poster at a conference, and to Juliana for an awesome short talk! Thanks to Tessa for providing critical support! And a big HOORAY for Abbey who earned runner-up for BEST TALK!!
Big congratulations to Juliana, Abbey, and friend-of-the-lab Robert for receiving awards through the Samuel Miller Fund to support agricultural research! Very well done!
Caroline and Leila have a new paper in press with Evolution “Genetic variation in parasite avoidance, yet no evidence for constitutive fitness costs” which lays the foundation for testing theory Caroline has been developing on the evolution of parasite avoidance.
And check out our new paper in Evolutionary Applications “Do biological control agents adapt to local pest genotypes? A multi-year test across geographic scales” – coauthored with Fabiane, Abbey, and our collaborator Patty. This answers a long-standing question on local adaptation of Pasteuria penetrans to Meloidogyne hosts, with implications for use of P. penetrans as a biological control.
Well done everyone!
Congratulations to Neha, Adianna, Schubin, and Ean for being selected for Harrison Awards to support their independent research this summer! And many thanks to their super mentors Linyao, Caroline, Abbey, and Juliana! Exciting science will be happening this summer.
Congratulations to second-years Erin Scott and Juliana Jiranek on their EEBio proposal talks! They got great feedback on how to develop their dissertation proposals in advance of their qualifying exams next spring.
The lab made a great showing at SEPEEG, with lots of presentations by lab members (Caroline Amoroso, Abbey Ramirez, Juliana Jiranek, Sarah Talley, and Adianna Lockwood-Shabbat) and friends of the lab (Robert Porter, Ashlyn Crain) and others in attendance providing moral support. We hosted the first ever Meal Worm with friends from Emory, Georgia Tech, and the University of Maryland. And Sarah Talley did an amazing job as the undergraduate volunteer in charge of making sure everyone’s powerpoints went according to plan.
Big congratulations to Juliana Jiranek who earned an SSE Lewontin Award! This award will go to support genomic analysis of genes for resistance to rust in Lewis Flax, which Juliana collects across altitudinal gradients at Rocky Mountain Biological Station.
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