from the University of Liège, Belgium, to assemble the mt genome of Peltigera dolichorrhiza! Bienvenue.

Emily Qian, a former undergraduate who develop the protocols for our migratory bird feather screening project with Lily (Lewis)  has been accepted in genetic counseling program at UC Irvine lab member. Congratulations.

Lily (and Chris Field, also in EEB) has been awarded  a fellowship from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the Fall semester, allowing her to focus on her research. Congratulations!

Our proposal “Collaborative Research: Starting from scratch with Sticta: Evolution, diversification, and conservation of a megadiverse flagship lichen genus” led by Drs. T. Lumbsch, R. Lücking (The Field Museum) is recommended for funding!

Emily Behling, the undergraduate researcher working with Lily Lewis has received an Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution travel award to attend this summer’s Evolution meeting and present her work. She will present a poster on her work and be set up with mentors during the meeting. She and 24 other students from across the nation were selected from a pool of 80 applicants. Congratulations Emily and Lily.

Emily Behling, an undergraduate in Biology mentored by Lily Lewis and working on the diaspores carried by migratory birds in their plumage won a SURF  (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship). Congratulations. the

Hodkinson, B. P., J. L. Allen, L. Forrest, B. Goffinet, E. Sérusiaux, Ó. S. Andrésson, V. Miao, P. Bellenger & F. Lutzoni. 2014. Lichen-symbiotic cyanobacteria have an alternative vanadium-dependent nitrogen fixation system. European Journal of Phycology  49(1): 11-19. pdf

The next IAB meeting will be held on Navarino Island, in the Cape Horn Archipelago, Chile

Medina, R., F. Lara, B. Goffinet, R. Garileti & V. Mazimpaka. 2013. Unnoticed diversity within the disjunct moss Orthotrichum tenellum (Orthotrichaceae) validated by morphological and molecular approaches. Taxon 62: 1133–1152. Look for it here.