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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!
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!
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!
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!
Congrats to Kai Davis for receiving the Jim Brown Poster Award at the 2023 ASM NC Branch Meeting!!! Way to go, Kai!!!
There's no better team building snack than fresh popcorn!!!
 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.
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 :)!
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!!!   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!
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.
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. 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.
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