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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

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Category Archives: Lab News
Journal Club – December 10, 2013
Articles that will be discussed at journal club on December 10, 2013. (1) Orona-Tamayo et al (2013) Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock–key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation. Mol Ecol … Continue reading
Journal Club – November 26, 2013
Articles that will be discussed in Journal Club. (1) Gorischek et al (2013) Fungal symbionts as manipulators of plant reproductive biology. Am Nat 181: 562-570. (2) Goto et al (2010) Selective flower abortion maintains moth cooperation in a newly discovered pollination mutualism. … Continue reading
Lab Meeting – December 3, 2013
There is no lab meeting on December 3, 2013.
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Lab Meeting – September 24, 2013
Dave Queller will be presenting at this coming week’s lab meeting.
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Lab Meeting – 17 September 2013
Katie Geist will be presenting at lab meeting this coming Tuesday.
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Journal Club – September 14, 2013
Article chosen by Cassie Vernier: “Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection” Dominik Refardt, Tobias Bergmiller and Rolf Kümmerli
Our post-doc, Debbie Brock, featured in a National Geographic article, “How the World’s Smallest Farmers Turned Chemists into Foods”. Link: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/29/how-the-worlds-smallest-farmers-turned-chemists-into-food/
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Joan elected to National Academy of Sciences
For information on other elected members, visit the following link: http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2013_04_30_NAS_Election.html
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Journal Article for 26-March-2013
Jousset A, Rochat L, Scheu S, Bonkowski M, Keel C (2010) Predator-Prey Chemical Warfare Determines the Expression of Biocontrol Genes by Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas fluorescens. Appl Environ Microbiol 76:5263–5268.
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Journal Article for 2-October-2012
Journal article chosen by Jason Scott: Blount et al. (2012). Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population. Nature. 489: 513-518. Also, check out the News and Views for this article: Hendrickson, H., & Rainey, P.B. (2012). How the unicorn … Continue reading
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