Graduate student Gabby Mizell leads a new paper from our lab showing that we can use 13C pulse-chase labeling to discover how plants allocate carbon to their mutualist ant defenders.
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Graduate student Aramee Diethelm successfully defended her doctoral dissertation yesterday and is headed to a postdoc at UC Davis.
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Research by graduate student Anson Call was highlighted by the Western Integrated Pest Management Center, a regional center of the USDA.
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Graduate student Aramee Diethelm leads a new paper from our lab group reporting that intraspecific variation in phytochemistry may be reduced under persistent climatic stress.
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Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers who have recently won multiple awards from UNR to support their research!
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Awards for 2022-2023 recognize the amazing work being done by the graduate students in the lab.
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A new project funded by the NSF CAREER program will investigate how changes to plant chemistry under drought feed back to affect plant-animal interactions and soil carbon cycling.
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Postdoc Patrick Milligan has a new paper out from his dissertation work at the University of Florida, with Gabby and Beth as co-authors. Through a set of complementary greenhouse and field experiments, we show that soil-nesting invasive ants harm saplings directly, primarily by means of something they are doing to roots.
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Talks at conferences in the U.S. and Mexico by students in the lab.
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Northern Nevada has been in the path of smoke from three huge wildfires this summer while we work on understanding monarch-milkweed interactions in the Great Basin.
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Our field teams will be racing around Nevada this summer, surveying milkweed populations, conducting monarch common garden experiments, and surveying plant communities around alfalfa fields.
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Steph’s going to study how Cecropia trees’ variable investment in ant defense across a rainfall gradient affects caterpillar communities.
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Ask a Biologist (an awesome outreach website based at ASU) did a feature to explain our work to K-12 biology students. They also explained Beth’s career path, and Beth did a podcast to sum it all up with Dr. Biology.
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