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Congratulations to Tiffany, who will graduate this semester! Safe travels to Sua, who returns home, and a great summer to everyone else!
2025 Simms Lab Team!
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Author Archives: Ellen Simms
A fabulous team in the lab!
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We’ve had a great team in the lab this year. Congratulations to 2024 graduates Julio Magaño-Orozco and Sarah Skotnicki!
Postdoctoral scholar Jannick Van Cauwenberghe publishes a new paper!
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2022. Santamaría, R. I., P. Bustos, J. Van Cauwenberghe, V. González. 2022. “Hidden diversity of double-stranded DNA phages in symbiotic Rhizobium species.” Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B: 377(1842): 20200468. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0468
Postdoctoral scholar Jannick Van Cauwenberghe publishes a new paper!
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Van Cauwenberghe, J., Santamaría, R.I., Bustos, P. et al. Spatial patterns in phage-Rhizobium coevolutionary interactions across regions of common bean domestication. ISME J (2021).
Happier Times, at Point Lobos
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Now that we are scattered to the winds and sheltering in place, it’s nice to reflect back on happier times. We visited Point Lobos during our attendance at ASN2020. Stay safe and healthy, everybody! We’ll see you back in the … Continue reading
Excited to welcome new graduate Student Anna Scharnagl, who will join our lab in August 2019!
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Postdoc Jannick Van Cauwenberghe gave a poster at the 2019 Microbial Population Biology Gordon Conference
Congratulations to Helen!
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Helen Kurkjian earned her Ph.D. and is heading off to a postdoctoral position at Boston College! We’re wishing Helen well in her future endeavors!
Congratulations to Kim La Pierre for a new paper!
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We’ve just published our first paper on our invasive legume project! Thanks to corresponding author Kim La Pierre for shepherding this project to completion. Figure 1. In California, (a) French broom (Genista monspessulana), (b) Spanish broom (Spartium junceum), and (c) … Continue reading
Welcome to Marriam and Mohsin!
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We’re excited to welcome back Marriam and Mohsin, who have returned to visit our lab for a year. Mohsin will be isolating non-rhizobium plant growth-promoting bacteria from legume nodules. Marriam will be collaborating with Ellen on isolating bacteriophage from rhizobia.