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Lab News
- New paper: Despite being an extreme diet generalist, D. discoideum suffer costs when switched between different prey species.
- New Paper: Multiple genetic routes toward predation-resistance in Pseudomonas lead to similar symbiont-like behavior with Dicty!
- New paper: Paraburkholderia aren’t fussy about who they infect.
- New NSF grant on predation funds the lab until 2027!
- New paper and preprints!
- Dr. Trey Scott defended his thesis!
- Undergraduates presented posters at the undergraduate research symposium!
- Photos from our outreach at the Ferguson Farmers Market
- Sindhuri Ivaturi wins Harrison D. Stalker Award!
- Israt Jahan wins 3 minute thesis competition!
Listen to Joan Strassmann’s latest talk about Slow Birding below!
Joan Strassmann elected to National Academy of Sciences
Dictyostelium
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Category Archives: Journal Club: Every other Tuesday @9AM in McDonnell (Danforth campus) 412. Visitors welcome!
Journal Club – December 10, 2013
Articles that will be discussed at journal club on December 10, 2013. (1) Orona-Tamayo et al (2013) Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock–key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation. Mol Ecol … Continue reading
Journal Club – November 26, 2013
Articles that will be discussed in Journal Club. (1) Gorischek et al (2013) Fungal symbionts as manipulators of plant reproductive biology. Am Nat 181: 562-570. (2) Goto et al (2010) Selective flower abortion maintains moth cooperation in a newly discovered pollination mutualism. … Continue reading
Journal Club – September 14, 2013
Article chosen by Cassie Vernier: “Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection” Dominik Refardt, Tobias Bergmiller and Rolf Kümmerli
Journal Article for 26-March-2013
Jousset A, Rochat L, Scheu S, Bonkowski M, Keel C (2010) Predator-Prey Chemical Warfare Determines the Expression of Biocontrol Genes by Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas fluorescens. Appl Environ Microbiol 76:5263–5268.
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Journal Article for 2-October-2012
Journal article chosen by Jason Scott: Blount et al. (2012). Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population. Nature. 489: 513-518. Also, check out the News and Views for this article: Hendrickson, H., & Rainey, P.B. (2012). How the unicorn … Continue reading
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Journal Article for 25-September-2012
David Queller picked the journal article for this week: Rand, D.G., Greene, J.D., & Nowak, M.A. (2012). Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature, 489, 427-430.
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Journal Article for 18-September-2012
Jason Scott chose the journal articles for this week. They are titled Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance by Otto X. Cordero et al. & Microbial Cooperative Warfare by Helene Morlon.
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Journal Article for 31-July-2012
We will not have journal club this week.
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Journal Article for 24-July-2012
Jason Scott chose the journal article for this week. It is titled Speciation by Symbiosis by Robert Brucker and Seth R. Bordenstein.
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Journal Article for 17-July-2012
jeff smith chose the journal article for this week. It is titled The Dynamics of Cooperative Bacterial Virulence in the Field written by Raymond B, West SA, Griffin AS, and Bonsall, MB.
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