It’s long past time for an update. There’s been some excellent accomplishments and other news this year:
- Celeste had a first author paper describing the mCURE curriculum for characterizing bacterioplankton published in JMBE. Jordan was second author.
- Holly had a first author paper announcing the LSUCC0859 (Flavobacteriaceae) genome in MRA with Shelby and Mike as co-authors.
- Conner had a first author paper describing a pipeline to streamline relative abundance estimates from metagenomes published in MRA with Eric as a co-author.
- Celeste gave a talk at the virtual Ocean Sciences Meeting on SAR11 subclade IIIa.
- Chuankai presented a poster on SAR11 growth rate limitation at ASMicrobe 2022 in Washington D.C.
- Shelby presented a poster on the effects of photooxidation on microbial hydrocarbon degradation at ISME18 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her first conference!
- Celeste presented a poster on SAR11 subclade IIIa at ISME18 as well. That paper is now in review!
- We welcomed Zack Henning to the lab as our most recent Ph.D. student. Great to have you here Zack!