McDaniel and Ponciano labs receive NSF grant to study moss-microbial symbiosis

Stuart and Jose-Miguel (with scientists from Northern Arizona University and University of Colorado) were awarded an NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity grant to study the effect of moss diversity on nitrogen-fixing microbes in the Alaskan arctic. McDaniel, Ponciano and their colleagues plan to use the moss-microbe interactions to understand of how biodiversity influences ecosystem function in […]

Sarah Carey’s placenta project funded

Sarah Carey received an SSE Rosemary Grant award for her work on genetic conflict in resource allocation in the moss placenta. She also received travel funds from the microMORPH RCN to visit Mike Scanlon’s lab to learn laser capture microdissection.

Jared Miller receives Thad Owen Memorial Undergraduate Research Award

Jared Miller’s proposal, “Symbiont community assembly in the lichen Leptogium cyanescens at the Ordway Swisher Biological Station” was selected for funding. Jared is working with graduate student Barry Kaminsky to assess the degree of partner fidelity between the fungal and algal partners in the nitrogen fixing lichen L. cyanescens. For more information on the OSBS, […]

Gene targeting in heterochromatin

The C. purpureus R40 lab isolate expressing dsRED from a transgene targeted to its sex chromosome. Because R40 is male, only male progeny will inherit the transgene in crosses to this line. This not lnly provides a tool to rapidly screen the sex ratio of experimental crosses but also demonstrates that gene targeting via homologous recombination functions in […]

Congrats!

Alex Powell graduated with highest honors with a project on genetic variation in response to non-circadian conditions in Physcomitrella patens. Shawn Abrahams was awarded a PLANTS fellowship to attend Botany2013 in New Orleans this summer, and a 2013-2014 University Scholars Program fellowship to study the genetics of life history variation in Ceratodon purpureus in the […]

Ceratodon sex chromosome paper in Evolution

At least eight genes have been captured by the non-recombining portion of the Ceratodon sex chromosomes in the recent history of the species.

McDaniel Lab

Featured