September 2024. Logan’s paper on genome evolution of thermophilic Synechococcus is published in The ISME Journal!

August 2024. Welcome, Tori (new PhD student) and Jean-Marc (new postdoc)!

July 2024. Nikea’s paper on the diversification of the Acaryochloris light-harvesting apparatus is published in Current Biology!

May 2024. Heidi is awarded the UM Graduate School Besancon Scholarship!

May 2024. Nathan presents his work on Acaryochloris thermotolerance at the UM Conference on Undergraduate Research!

April 2024. Heidi’s first paper on the Rhopalodiales-cyanobacterium symbiosis is published in The ISME Journal!

December 2023. Nikea defends her PhD dissertation!!

April 2023. Nikea and Heidi win Best Talk and Best Poster awards, respectively, at EVO-WIBO in Port Townsend, WA!

October 2022. Logan defends his Masters thesis - congratulations, Logan! Celebrations optionally included the “Grand Prismatic” cocktail (see photo), named for the iconic hot spring and engineered by UM grad students Sophie and Evan. Did it look better than it tasted? Yes. Yes, it did.

Spring 2022. Nikea receives a P.E.O. Scholar Award and a NASA Montana Space Grant Consortium Award for next year!