Past Happenings (from August 2022-Present)...
August 2023: Welcome to all of our new lab members, including PhD student Elise Grabda, MS student Millie Ortiz, and undergraduate students Special Puri, Elijah Resuello, Zoe Edmonson, Kimberly Gonzalez, and Briana Worley!
August 2023: Rachael and Kim attended the annual Ecological Society of America meeting this summer in Portland, Oregon! It was great to see friends and colleagues there and hear about some amazing science.
June 2023: Milan Toomer received an Undergraduate Research Creativity Award, amazing! She's hard at work this summer planting lots of legumes in the greenhouse to see how plant-soil feedbacks impact legume species coexistence.
June 2023: Rachael and Zachary are out at Konza Prairie for the summer to study tallgrass prairie plant and insect communities!
May 2023: Congratulations to our graduates, Wudeh Saidykhan and Jayda Gresham! We're so proud of your accomplishment!
May 2023: We are sad to say farewell to Sarah Alley, who has been a fabulous technician for the lab's beanDIP and GMDR projects for more than two years! Sarah excelled at detailed lab work and was always ready with a smile. Sarah moves on to graduate school and we wish her all the best!
April 2023: Rachael Brenneman and Zachary Bunch presented posters at the UNCG Graduate Student Expo!
January 2023: We're so proud that Rachael Brenneman received the Linda Carlisle Graduate Fellowship for her academic excellence. Way to go Rachael!
January 2023: We're excited to have Zachary Bunch join the lab as a new master's student, as well as undergraduate researchers Holly Cha, Kyla Grant, Jayda Gresham, Zaria McKoy, Wudeh Saidykhan, and Zion York! The lab is growing quickly!
September 2022: Sarah Gora joins the team as a new lab technician! We're excited to get the lab organized together.
August 14-18, 2022: ESA annual meeting comes around again! We had lots of fun with friends and colleagues discussing great science!
August 2022: Welcome to our newest graduate students, Rachael Brenneman and Shelby Williford!
August 2022: We are excited to join the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro!
August 2023: Rachael and Kim attended the annual Ecological Society of America meeting this summer in Portland, Oregon! It was great to see friends and colleagues there and hear about some amazing science.
June 2023: Milan Toomer received an Undergraduate Research Creativity Award, amazing! She's hard at work this summer planting lots of legumes in the greenhouse to see how plant-soil feedbacks impact legume species coexistence.
June 2023: Rachael and Zachary are out at Konza Prairie for the summer to study tallgrass prairie plant and insect communities!
May 2023: Congratulations to our graduates, Wudeh Saidykhan and Jayda Gresham! We're so proud of your accomplishment!
May 2023: We are sad to say farewell to Sarah Alley, who has been a fabulous technician for the lab's beanDIP and GMDR projects for more than two years! Sarah excelled at detailed lab work and was always ready with a smile. Sarah moves on to graduate school and we wish her all the best!
April 2023: Rachael Brenneman and Zachary Bunch presented posters at the UNCG Graduate Student Expo!
January 2023: We're so proud that Rachael Brenneman received the Linda Carlisle Graduate Fellowship for her academic excellence. Way to go Rachael!
January 2023: We're excited to have Zachary Bunch join the lab as a new master's student, as well as undergraduate researchers Holly Cha, Kyla Grant, Jayda Gresham, Zaria McKoy, Wudeh Saidykhan, and Zion York! The lab is growing quickly!
September 2022: Sarah Gora joins the team as a new lab technician! We're excited to get the lab organized together.
August 14-18, 2022: ESA annual meeting comes around again! We had lots of fun with friends and colleagues discussing great science!
August 2022: Welcome to our newest graduate students, Rachael Brenneman and Shelby Williford!
August 2022: We are excited to join the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro!