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Lab Meeting 14-February-2012

Posted on February 14, 2012 by abenaa07

We will not be holding lab meeting this week.

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Science Paper by Devin Dobias

Posted on February 14, 2012 by abenaa07

As an undergraduate, Devin Dobias worked along side Justin Meyer at Michigan State University. They recently published their work in Science. It is titled Repeatability and Contingency in the Evolution of a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda. Read this news … Continue reading →

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Journal Article for 14-February-2012

Posted on February 14, 2012 by abenaa07

This week’s journal article will be Success of a suicidal defense strategy against infection in a structured habitat written by Masaki Fukuyo. There is a talk at the medical school that will be held at 4pm, therefore we will save … Continue reading →

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Lab Meeting 7-February-2012

Posted on February 2, 2012 by abenaa07

Instead of holding lab meeting, we will be attending the Micro Super-Group this morning starting at 8:30am. Two members of Petra Levin’s lab in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis department spoke at today’s meeting.

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Journal Article for 7-February-2012

Posted on February 2, 2012 by abenaa07

We are skipping this week since Joan and Dave will be out of town.

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Lab Meeting 2-February-2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by abenaa07

We will host lab meeting on Thursday instead of the usual Tuesday and Jeff Smith will be leading lab meeting this week.    

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Journal Article for 31-January-2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by abenaa07

The journal article for this week will be William Ratcliff’s paper titled Experimental evolution of multicellularity.

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New Meeting Times

Posted on January 19, 2012 by abenaa07

We are off to a great start this year!! We are changing a few things around such as journal club and lab meeting times. We will be having journal club on Tuesdays @ 4pm and lab meetings will be held … Continue reading →

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Tragedy of the commons among antibiotic resistance plasmids

Posted on January 19, 2012 by abenaa07

Jeff Smith, a post-doc in Drs. Strassmann and Queller’s lab, recently published a paper in Evolution. To read the paper please click here.

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Cheating cells are destined to fail

Posted on January 19, 2012 by abenaa07

Former graduate students, Jennie Kuzdzal-Fick and Sara Fox, published their research in Science. Click here to read more about Jennie’s research endeavor. The NSF also had a press release about the project as well as Science. Click on the name … Continue reading →

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