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We were so lucky to host visiting undergraduate researcher Mamie Ceesay who recently graduated from Fayetteville State University!
Mamie Ceesay presented research entitled Evaluating the secret alliance between plants and bacteria at the NC GlaxoSmithKline Summer Immersion Program Research Symposium. With major help from our biology friends (Fidy Rasambainarivo and Ben Brisard) and Peralta Lab members Mamie and Michael, we got the sampling D-O-N-E!
 Congrats to Peralta Lab undergrads Seray Carey (left), Kenia Medina-Leal (second from left), and Sophia DeBruhl (right)!!! We will miss you amazing researchers!!!
Sophia successfully completed and defended the senior thesis Effects of Plant-Growth Promoting Bacteria on Plant Salinity Stress to earn Honors in Biology! Congrats!!!
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!
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.
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! 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). |
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