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Doctoral Student Colin Finlay presents work on microbial community structure and nitrogen processing function in different green stormwater control measures. We attend in ASM Microbe Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Track + Climate Change Track and network at the Climate Change Mixer with microbial enthusiasts!
Following up on the 2023 pilot project, coastal ecology and microbial ecology labs collaborate! Led by Mary-Margaret McKinney (ICS PhD Candidate, ECU), Rachel Gittman (Asst. Professor, ECU), and AP! Peralta Lab graduate students Kelsey Coates and Michael Sioson join this year's team! Here are some photos of the donor marsh sediment microbes and salinity pre-treatment before transplanting into 18 fringing marsh sites.
Congratulations to graduate student Dejah Smith and undergrads Glory Kidimbu, Tete Narh-Mensah, and Kai Davis (not pictured)!!!
Headed to the Croatan National Forest to enjoy flowering pitcher plants and saw a spotted turtle too!!! Thanks to Emeritus Professor and dear friend Trip Lamb for taking former ECU prof and friend Chris Balakrishnan and AP out for biodiversity outing!
Glory Kidimbu and Kai Davis recognized for earning Honors in Biology!
Tete Narh-Mensah awarded the prestigious Robert H. Wright Leadership Award!
Hannah Pankey (left), undergraduate at Fayetteville State University, presents work on phylogenomic examination of spider venom proteins, Celina Mckoy (middle), undergraduate at Winston Salem State University, presents work on nitrogen processing in a restored urban stream ecosystem, and Summer Lutz (right), undergraduate at Fayetteville State University, presents work on nitrogen enrichment effects on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities.
Lab represents! Colin Finlay presents work on redox effects on wetland microbial structure-function, Scott Siebor presents work on course-based undergraduate research experiences in microbiology, and Kai Davis presents work on wetland plant-microbe associations.
Welcome new graduate students Daphka Joseph (MS Biology), Michael Sioson (MS Biology), and Kelsey Coates (PhD, IDPBBC, NSF GRFP Awardee)!
Undergraduate Kai Davis presents research on environmental stressor effects on plant-microbe associations.
REU: Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Communities (C2C) Research Symposium! Undergraduates Matthew Mair (Appalachian State University) and Kate Lamkin (Colorado College) present their research co-mentored by graduate student Mahesh Tapas and economist Greg Howard, ecological engineer Randall Etheridge, and microbial ecologist AP! Interdisciplinary teams rule!!!
Undergraduate Coastal REU Matthew Mair presents at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and the watershed resilience team goes for ice cream!
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