Category Archives: Lab News

Trey’s paper on context-dependence in the social amoebae-Paraburkholderia symbiosis is now published in Evolution Letters! Trey also wrote a companion blog post about the paper.

Joan and first author Julio Postigo have a new paper in Science that reviews a book on insect agriculture.

Joan’s first book, Slow Birding will be published on October 25.

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.

Trey’s new paper on context-dependence in the Dictyostelium–Paraburkholderia symbiosis is out on bioRxiv.

Gina’s proposal is titled “Probing the role of heterogeneity in streptococcal interactions” and looks at interactions between different bacteria inside the mouth.

Read the post here

Former postdocs published a new paper characterizing the unculturable endosymbionts of amoebae.

Tyler Larsen’s new paper using experimental evolution to infer symbiotic adaptations was published in evolution! Here is a link to the paper.

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.