Abstract:
Every known group of coelomate animal hosts a massive diversity of bacteria in their gut. These two extremely dissimilar and distantly related groups of organisms have coevolved to develop what is now known to be an immensely complex symbiotic and evolutionarily adaptive relationship that is changing our understanding of animal physiology. These complex intestinal microbial communities are now collectively referred to as the gut microbiota, and the interactions between these communities and their hosts have become a particularly active area of study over the last decade. My thesis work investigated two projects:
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After an exciting season of receiving acceptances and merit scholarships from four of the graduate schools to which she applied, Su has finally made a decision. We're extremely happy to announce that Su will attend Yale University’s School of Public Health starting in the Fall. Su will be completing a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in epidemiology of microbial diseases. The thing that made Yale feel right for her was the dedicated infectious disease department, as well as the low student faculty ratio. Su is also really interested in the emerging infections program.
Reed Lab doctoral student, Vishal Oza, successfully defended his PhD today! He will start his postdoctoral fellowship working on multiomics data analysis with Dr. Brittany Lasseigne at the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology at UAB Medical School, in January.
Vishal Oza, Reed Lab member and PhD Candidate, managed to incorporate Game of Thrones references and other humorous bits into his research seminar "Can a computational biologist fix a metabolome? or what I learned doing a PhD in metabolomics."
The Genomics Education Partnership was recently awarded two five-year grants- a $2.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health and a $1.99 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Reed Lab members and a host of family/friends gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of departing lab members Katie Sandlin, Dr. Clare Scott-Chialvo, Kelsey Lowman, and Olivia Fish.
Congratulations to Reed Lab member, Katie Sandlin, for successfully defending her master's thesis: "Evolution of the Insulin Signaling Pathway across Metazoans!"
Four members of the Reed Lab presented at the 2019 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (URSCA) Conference.
Bailey and Sarah-Ashely presented together, and Abbie and Ryan presented together. Both pairs made it to the top 10 posters, with Abbie and Ryan’s placing 1st in the Poster Presentation in Natural Sciences and Mathematics with a $500 prize. This was the first time either Ryan or Abbie had participated in a poster competition. |