News Archive
10/1/2022: Welcome new Ph.D. student Raechel Hearth! Raechel recently completed a Masters at DePaul University. And welcome back to recent UChicago graduate Jessica Rodriguez! Jessica is joining the lab for one year as an NSF GEO-REPS research trainee. We also welcome UChicago undergrads Keren Park and Jaslin Aguirre.
7/25/2022: Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Calfee for being awarded a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology. Way to go Ben!
3/2/2022: Justin successfully defends his Ph.D.! Congratulations Dr. Podowski! Justin is off to Argonne National Lab where he is sure to put his metagenomics skills to good use.
2/15/2022: Undergrad Zoey Papka joins the lab. Welcome Zoey!
2/7/2022: Hanna Renedo joins us as a research and communications assistant. Hanna’s passion is science communication through visual arts. Welcome Hanna!
1/10/2022: Dr. Benjamin Calfee joined us as a postdoc in the Coleman & Waldbauer Labs. Welcome Dr. Calfee!
11/1/2021: Undergrad Jessica Rodriguez joins the lab. Welcome Jessica!
4/28/2021: Undergrad Anna Warsaw joins the lab. Welcome Anna!
7/29/2020: Gabriel successfully defended his dissertation, “Molecular and environmental controls on aerobic anoxygenic phototrophy”! Congratulations Dr. Vargas!! Gabriel will be joining the Currie Lab at UWisconsin-Madison as a postdoc.
6/29/2020: Postdoc Michael Henson has been awarded a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology! Congratulations Mike!
3/19/2020: PhD student María Hernández Limón has been awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! Congratulations María!
3/4/2020: This winter we welcomed new postdoc Dr. Michael Henson to the lab. Several of us presented at OSM2020, and Maureen visited NOAA-GLERL for the CIGLR Great Lakes Seminar Series. Gearing up for spring fieldwork, just a few weeks away!
12/3/2019: New online: Our first comparative Great Lakes manuscript, led by Sara Paver, is published! Stay tuned for more… find it here.
11/5/2019: New online: Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems. Congrats to all authors and thanks to the Moore Foundation for supporting this project!
7/25/2019: It has been a busy few months for the lab. We sailed on the R/V Blue Heron from Milwaukee to Duluth, hunting for cyanobacteria and other microbes. Read more about it here. We’re gearing up for our next Great Lakes Summer Survey aboard the R/V Lake Guardian. And meanwhile, our work with Jake Waldbauer tracking nitrogen into marine viruses was published in PNAS. Happy summer!
5/9/2019: We have just wrapped up Spring Survey 2019 with the awesome folks from EPA, the R/V Lake Guardian, Cornell, UM-Duluth, and others. Huge thank you to Justin and María for all their efforts at (inland) sea!
3/2/2019: We hosted 45 high school students from the Schuler Scholar Program for Earth Science Day at UChicago. María did a fantastic job organizing this event!11/14/2018: Marine-freshwater biodiversity paper published in mSystems
10/8/2018: Caulobacter paper published, in collaboration with Crosson Lab What happens when you grow a collection of Caulobacter mutants in Lake Michigan water? This.
9/4/2018: Welcome María! Graduate student María Hernández Limón is joining our lab this fall. María was an undergraduate at Brown University and most recently worked in the Dyhrman lab at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University.
9/1/2018: Summer Survey 2018 We – led by Sara, Justin, and María – just wrapped up Year 7 of our Great Lakes microbial time series sampling. We are grateful to our collaborators at the EPA GLNPO and the captain and crew of the R/V Lake Guardian.
8/30/2018: NSF awarded! It’s official — we have received funding from the NSF Biological Oceanography program to support our work in the Great Lakes. This project focuses on the picocyanobacteria, and is a collaboration with Jake Waldbauer and Anne Thompson.
8/14/2018: ISME17 Gabriel presented his genetics work at ISME17 in Leipzig.
