SURE summer research: Scott Keith joins the lab for the summer to complete summer undergraduate research on aphid-fungal interactions.

Honors Thesis: Alex Kamins receives highest honors for her undergraduate honors work on the interaction between ladybird beetles, aphids and aphid symbionts.

Roche 454 sequencing grant: In collaboration with Cameron Currie (U. WIsconsin), Garret Suen (U. Wisconsin), Steve Slater (U. Wisconsin), George Weinstock (Washington), Sandra Clifton (Washington) and James Taylor (Emory), the lab received funding to sequence 10GB of genomic, transcriptomic and metagenomic 454 sequence from players in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. The project will be the most extensive genomic exploration of a symbiosis to date. News Release

NEW ARRIVAL: Alice Laughton arrives to start a new postdoc position in the lab.

SIRE GRANTS: Undergrads Daniel Sok, Alex Kamins , Carmen Linares , Jill Spragg and Shruthi Subramanyam received SIRE (Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory) research grants to fund their projects next semester.

MONARCH-PARASITE SEED GRANT: Nicole Gerardo and Jaap de Roode received a seed grant to use 454 sequencing to explore the immune responses of parasitized monarch butterflies.