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Lab News
- New paper: Testing the coordination hypothesis using Dictyostelium
- Congratulations to Dr. Shreenidhi P.M.!
- Listen to Joan talk about Slow Birding to the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens
- New Paper: Who is left behind when Dicty fruits?
- Calum Stephenson wins 2024 Howard A. Schneiderman Fellowship.
- New paper: Cheating costs dearly, as small stalks reduce dispersal ability in D. discoideum.
- New Paper: Environmental predictability shapes symbiosis.
- David Queller elected to the National Academy of Sciences as part of their 2024 membership intake.
- Read Shreenidhi and Dave’s interview about their recent PNAS paper.
- Dr. Heng Liang joins the lab as a Postdoc.
Listen to Joan Strassmann on the ‘Weekend Birder’ Podcast!
David Queller elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dictyostelium
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Joan’s birding book will be published later this year!
Joan’s first book, Slow Birding will be published on October 25.
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Margaret Steele got an NSF fellowship!
Postdoc Margaret Steele was awarded the prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Her work will look at interactions between Dictyostelium amoebae and pathogenic bacteria.
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New preprint on bioRxiv
Trey’s new paper on context-dependence in the Dictyostelium–Paraburkholderia symbiosis is out on bioRxiv.
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Gina Lewin received NIH Pathway to Independence Award
Gina’s proposal is titled “Probing the role of heterogeneity in streptococcal interactions” and looks at interactions between different bacteria inside the mouth.
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Postdoc Laura Walker was featured on Biology Department webpage
Read the post here
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New endosymbiont paper published
Former postdocs published a new paper characterizing the unculturable endosymbionts of amoebae.
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Tyler’s paper published in Evolution
Tyler Larsen’s new paper using experimental evolution to infer symbiotic adaptations was published in evolution! Here is a link to the paper.
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Our science outreach was featured in Wash U’s biology newsletter
Our science outreach activities at the Ferguson Farmer’s market were featured in Wash U biology department’s newsletter, Biologue. You can find the article on page 9: Biologue Fall 2019.
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How to write a letter of recommendation: 5 essentials
Originally posted on Sociobiology:
I’ve written letters for these three great postdocs. “Kind to pets” is what a colleague calls positive letters of recommendation that don’t really say anything. Even worse is “word salad,” a series of highly predictable sentences…
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