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Lab attends 2024 Ecological Society of America Meeting in Long Beach, CA!

8/5/2024

 
Doctoral student Kelsey Coates presents poster Wetland plant and soil bacterial life history strategies interact to influence successional patterns in a changing world! It was an action packed poster session on day 1 of the conference!

Congrats to Dejah Smith for successful MS Biology defense!

8/2/2024

 
Dejay Smith presented and successfully defended her MS thesis "Examining microbial transfer between human and non-human primates using a OneHealth approach"! Congrats, Dejah! Dejah's committee brought together a motley crew: Fidy Rasambainarivo (ECU; middle photo), James Loudon (ECU), and Katie Amato (Northwestern Univ).

We are so excited that Dejah is just 'down the road' working as the lab manager for Dr. Jean-Philippe Gibert's Microbial Food Web Ecology and Evolution Lab at Duke University. 

AP and Rachel Gittman Lab checking on transplants ... that are left

8/1/2024

 
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It was a hot summer for humans and Spartina transplants in fringing marshes around the Atlantic Beach, NC area. Looking forward to learn whether our marsh microbe + salinity pre-treatment influences success in the field! Stay tuned!

Summer undergraduate interns present their work!

7/31/2024

 
We were so lucky to host visiting undergraduate researchers this summer! They did an amazing job sciencing this summer! 

Lauren Gray (left), undergraduate at Fayetteville State University, presented research entitled Exploring Microbial Metabolic Potential of Culturable Wetland Microbiomes at the NC GlaxoSmithKline Summer Immersion Program Research Symposium.

Daphne Giampietro (right), undergraduate at Wheaton College, presented a poster entitled Farmer Attributes Influence Conservation Decisions at the REU: Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Communities (C2C) Research Symposium! Daphne was co-advised by Greg Howard (econ) and Randall Etheridge (engineering).

Lab pizza lunch and team building (a.k.a. tie dying lab shirts)

7/10/2024

 

Lab presents at ASM Microbe and community builds with EEB and climate change enthusiasts!

6/15/2024

 
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! 

Marsh Madness Project Begins!

5/6/2024

 
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.

Labbies walk the stage for graduation!

5/3/2024

 
Congratulations to graduate student Dejah Smith and undergrads Glory Kidimbu, Tete Narh-Mensah, and Kai Davis (not pictured)!!!

Coastal Plain Biodiversity RULES!!!

5/1/2024

 
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!

Undergrad researchers recognized for their research and scholarship activities!

4/18/2024

 
Glory Kidimbu and Kai Davis recognized for earning Honors in Biology!

Tete Narh-Mensah awarded the prestigious Robert H. Wright Leadership Award!

Peralta lab visits D. Graham lab at Fayetteville State University!

1/26/2024

 
The lab takes a trip to Fayetteville, NC to meet with collaborators Dr. Danielle Graham and undergraduates to share updates on project examining nutrient effects on soil bacterial traits.
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Summer 2023 NC GSK Summer Immersion Program Interns Present at the 2023 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS)!

11/17/2023

 
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. 

Annual wetland soil sampling at the long-term ecology experimental plots!

11/10/2023

 

Kai Davis Awarded Jim Brown Award for Best Poster Presentation! Second year in a row!

11/4/2023

 
Congrats to Kai Davis for being awarded the Jim Brown Award for best poster presentation at the NC Branch ASM Meeting! This is the second year in a row that Kai has been recognized! 
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Lab presents at the NC Branch American Society for Microbiology Meeting @Duke Univ.

11/4/2023

 
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.
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