Bre Aflague successfully defends her MSc!
May 24, 2019 Congrats to Bre who did an awesome job on what was NOT an easy project. More good things to come!
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Blog post in Myrmecological News
January 24, 2019 Check out a blog post written by Jeff Garnas on colony social structure in the invasive European fire ant, Myrmica rubra. Super-abundant and with a nasty sting, this ant is still near and dear to Jeff’s heart as the subject of his Masters work at the University of Maine.
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Eric Morrison arrives for a postdoc!
October 10, 2018 Dr. Eric Morrison has joined the lab to investigate the fungal community ecology of the beech bark disease system (using a amplicon sequencing approach) and to examine the land genetics of associated Neonectria pathogens. Welcome Eric!
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COLSA highlights the lab’s Emerald ash borer work
October 2, 2018 Thanks UNH! See: Bellwether beetle Also see several videos on Facebook and Twitter: UNH scientist tackles looming forest health crisis Fighting bugs with bugs Nice to see the face of the lab getting out there (which is to say the students and fieldworkers who make the whole thing run!)
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Jeff is a guest on “The Exchange” with Laura Knoy
June 18, 2018 This time with former Dartmouth College PhD advisor and colleague, Matt Ayres. Topic/NHPR blog post: Warming Temperatures and Invasive Pests Pose Threat to NH Trees — Click here for audio stream
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AmNat paper from lab member Jeremy Heath is out!
May 1, 2018 Jeremy’s paper entitled “Adaptive Divergence in a Defense Symbiosis Driven from the Top Down” is published in this month’s American Naturalist! Download a free copy here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697446 Congrats Jeremy!
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Jeff Garnas is a guest on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange”
October 4, 2017 Dr. Jeff Garnas serves as a panelist on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange” on forest health issues (Dutch elm disease, Emerald ash borer, Chestnut blight). Links to: NHPR blog and audio.
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Jeremy Heath arrives for a postdoc!
October 1, 2017 Dr. Jeremy Heath has interests and background in plant defense theory and goldenrod gall midges and their interactions with Botryosphaeriaceae fungi. Welcome Jeremy!
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Caroline Kanaskie arrives!
August 1, 2017 Caroline Kanaskie recently graduated from Dickinson College with a degree in Environmental Science. During her undergrad, Caroline has worked on foliar chemistry of Hemlock wooly adelgid-infested hemlock trees, as well as on a funded EPA on nutrient and growth dynamics in New England salt marsh plants. Caroline will be working on range shifts and
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