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New paper: Despite being an extreme diet generalist, D. discoideum suffer costs when switched between different prey species.
D. discoideum readily consumes approximately 70% of the culturable bacteria that co-occur with it in the wild. What mechanisms underlie this extreme flexibility? Led by graduate student P.M. Shreenidhi in her first first-author publication, the lab’s new paper in PNAS … Continue reading
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New Paper: Multiple genetic routes toward predation-resistance in Pseudomonas lead to similar symbiont-like behavior with Dicty!
Check out the latest paper from the lab. Lead by postodoctoral researcher Margaret Steele, various wild isolates of Pseudomonas were found to escape predation by Dictyostelium discoideum, with no one universal resistance mechanism across strains. What’s more is that these … Continue reading
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New paper: Paraburkholderia aren’t fussy about who they infect.
Undergraduate alumni Rory Mather leads the latest paper from the lab in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Mather et al. infected seven different species of Dictyostelium with the three species of Paraburkholderia known to symbiotically associate with D. discoideum, and … Continue reading
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New NSF grant on predation funds the lab until 2027!
The QS Lab was recently awared a full-term grant by the NSF to exploring microbial predation. Our charismatic focal organism Dictyostelium discoideum is a super-generalist predator, readily eating the majority of bacteria it is encounters in nature. We’ll be investigating … Continue reading
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New paper and preprints!
New research has come out recently! First, a paper from James Medina’s PhD research on how D. discoideum can protect symbionts from competition has been published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology. This paper was a collaboration with former postdoc Justine Garcia. … Continue reading
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Undergraduates presented posters at the undergraduate research symposium!
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Sindhuri Ivaturi wins Harrison D. Stalker Award!
The Stalker Award is given to a graduating senior that combines achievements in the sciences with those in the arts and the humanities. Sindhuri has worked in the lab with postdoc Laura Walker on D. discoideum and Paraburkholderia genomics while … Continue reading
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Israt Jahan wins 3 minute thesis competition!
Graduate student Israt Jahan won both the people’s choice and first place in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy 3 minute thesis competition! She talked about
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The Queller/Strassmann Lab 