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Lab heads to Hyde County agricultural sites to sample salty soils

12/8/2022

 
Colin, Brian, Mahesh, and AP get out on a not-so-cold December day to sample agricultural soils along a salinity gradient. The team measured nitrogen removal capacity via denitrification enzyme assays back in the lab. Stay tuned to more updates on the watershed resilience project in 2023!

Congrats to newly minted Aied Garcia, MS & Daniya Stephens, MS!!!

12/5/2022

 
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Aied Garcia and Daniya Stephens successfully defend their MS Biology thesis projects!!! So proud of all their accomplishments, and were so very lucky to work with these amazing scientists over the years!

Annual sampling at the West Research Campus Wetland Experiment!

11/7/2022

 
The experiment is in year 20!!! We are so lucky to have this awesome long-term ecological experiment so close to campus. Thanks to Dr. Carol Goodwillie for starting and keeping this experiment going strong!!! Thanks to Colin, Brian, Ivan, and Tom (not pictured) for getting soil sampling done! Thanks to Aied, Daniya, Glory, and Kai for all the lab support!

Lab presents at the American Society for Microbiology NC Branch Meeting

11/5/2022

 
MS biology student Colin Finlay and undergrads Scott Siebor and Kai Davis present work on wetland microbial ecology! There was such great science presented by early career microbiologists. Can't wait until next year's meeting!

Kai wins BEST student poster award at ASM NC!

11/5/2022

 
Congrats to Kai Davis for receiving the Jim Brown Poster Award at the 2023 ASM NC Branch Meeting!!! Way to go, Kai!!!

Lab hosts Dr. Jean-Philippe Gibert for Biology seminar!

10/27/2022

 
We had a blast hosting Dr. Gibert at ECU! Dr. Gibert presented current work on how environmental change influences the structure and dynamics of microbial food webs while considering both ecology and evolution. We even gotten to show off the new popcorn maker!
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Christmas came early for AP ... popcorn cart maker on wheels arrives!

8/23/2022

 
There's no better team building snack than fresh popcorn!!!

Allison Walker presents at ESA 2022 in Montréal!

8/16/2022

 
Allison presented her NSURP turned Senior Capstone turned manuscript in prep! Allison was the only post-bacc person presenting alongside postdocs and PhD candidates. Allison did an amazing job presenting and answering questions!!! 
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ESA 2022 - AP gets gavel as Speaker of the ESA council for 4 hours!

8/14/2022

 
AP leads first in person ESA Council meeting with reps from all ESA sections and chapters as Speaker of Council along side past speaker Dan Stover and speaker elect Lin Meng. We had a productive chat about ways to build community across ESA sections and chapters.

Last weeks of summer time - break time!

8/11/2022

 
A little lab outing with lab folks and friend of peraltalab to boba tea place and lab lunch (on different days!) - there was some sciencing done during both days :)! 

Great work by C2C REUs Juliana and Thi!!!

8/4/2022

 
Juliana Cerny from Univ. of Virginia (mentored by AP and Randall Etheridge) and Thi Tran from Rutgers Univ. (mentored by AP and Greg Howard) joined the 2022 NSF-supported Resilience and Adaptation to Coastal Change Across Communities (C2C) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at the Coastal Studies Institute, East Carolina University Outer Banks Campus, Wanchese, NC. The 10-week program flew by by the REU scholars did some amazing work!!!
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Lab visits the Piehler Lab at UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences

7/19/2022

 
Scott, Colin and AP head to Morehead City, NC for the day to learn all the things flow through core experiment and MIMS from experts Suzanne Thompson and Mike Piehler! Thank you!!! It was a fun day at the coast!!! ...We're just about ready to move forward with setting up our own system at ECU to measure nitrogen fluxes at the sediment-water interface! ​

ECU-FSU Graduate Pathways Program Kick-off!

6/16/2022

 
Fayetteville State University collaborators Dr. Danielle Graham and undergrads Sarina, Alexia, Frankie, and Markis visit the lab to kick-off soil microbial ecology collaboration! Kai, Scott, Daniya, Aied, and Colin worked alongside FSU colleagues to share microbial ecology approaches and exchange soil bacterial isolate samples. Check out ECU news story for more details.

Lab presents at ASM Microbe 2022 in Washington, D.C.!

6/10/2022

 
Daniya, Colin, and Dejah present their research at ASM Microbe 2022 during the Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity track poster session! It was great to be at an in person conference again! So much science!!!
Stephens, D., A. Garcia, A.L. Peralta (2022) Nutrient enrichment and ditch effects alter plant- microbe interactions in a low nutrient wetland ecosystem. American Society for Microbiology Microbe Conference. Washington, D.C. 10-14 July 2022. Poster presentation.

Smith, D., A. Garcia, A.L. Peralta (2022) Consequences of long-term nutrient enrichment on wetland soil bacterial traits and plant-microbe relationships. American Society for Microbiology Microbe Conference. Washington, D.C. 10-14 July 2022. Poster presentation.
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Finlay, C., R. Bledsoe, M.E. Muscarella, A.L. Peralta (2022) Hydrology and plant-mediated effects on microbial taxonomic and functional diversity in a wetland soil mesocosm experiment. American Society for Microbiology Microbe Conference. Washington, D.C. 10-14 July 2022. Poster presentation.

Congrats to Virginia!

5/7/2022

 
​Big congrats to graduate Virginia Acosta Rosas, BS Biology! Virginia is headed to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland where she will participate in the NIH post-bacc program! Best of luck, Virginia!!! 
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