Mike, Celeste, and Emily will all be presenting at the 2017 ASM Microbe conference in New Orleans this coming weekend. Here is the info to find them: Saturday (6/3) Poster Session: AES11 – Freshwater and Marine Microbiology I Time: 12:15 PM – 2:15 PM Cultivation and Ecology of Novel SAR11 Taxa from Coastal Louisiana Waters (#700), V. Celeste […]
Cultivating members of the microbial majority
It is with great excitement that I get to post that our manuscript on cultivating members of the microbial majority using an artificial seawater medium is finally out! This manuscript represents the hard work of not just myself, but Dr. Thrash, our undergraduates (past and present), and Austen Webber. Over the last two years, I […]
Emily and Celeste present at LSU Discover Day
Emily presented her LA Sea Grant-funded work to characterize one of our coastal isolates from the OM252 clade, LSUCC0096. She showed this organism has remarkable salinity tolerance, and can grow under chemolithoautotrophic conditions, a feature that was predicted from genome analysis. Celeste presented results of her experiment to enrich for microorganisms […]
Thrash Lab research featured in The Pursuit
We have a little bit of press coverage here at LSU. See the post on our work at the College of Science website HERE.
Sampling Lake Borgne
Last week David and I got up early enough to duck a series of storms coming through the region for some sunny sampling on Lake Borgne. This also saw the maiden voyage of a new Thrash Lab capital acquisition, the R/V Schipperke. We put in at Campo’s Marina, toodled out to a site past the old fort […]
Cultivation
Growth curves from 61 isolates (in duplicate) after their first transfer from Mike’s last HPC experiment.
Dilution to extinction….
-jct
