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!
Eric Morrison arrives for a postdoc! Read More »
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!)
COLSA highlights the lab’s Emerald ash borer work Read More »
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
Jeff is a guest on “The Exchange” with Laura Knoy Read More »
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!
AmNat paper from lab member Jeremy Heath is out! Read More »
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.
Jeff Garnas is a guest on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange” Read More »
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!
Jeremy Heath arrives for a postdoc! Read More »
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
Caroline Kanaskie arrives! Read More »
January 24, 2017 Breanne Aflague has extensive experience insect rearing and biological control at APHIS PPQ. Originally from Cape Cod, Breanne will pursue an MSc studying aspects of the biological control of the Emerald ash borer in the regeneration layer. Learn more about her project here.
Breanne Aflague joins the lab! Read More »
