September 6, 2023 This is Jeff (with a new friend [a wooden wolf statue placed without explanation on the park bench]) on the campus of the University of Lausanne next to the “Napolean tree”– an English oak (Quercus robur). This massive tree was an acorn when Napoleon (yes, Bonaparte) was a young boy, and a …
August 30, 2023 It’s been a while since we’ve posted any news on the Garnas Lab site . . . so here’s a big update to catch you up on the last FOUR years! We plan to post to the site more often, and we just transitioned the site over to WordPress so it is …
From postdoc Carl Bastom, Jr: “As an Assistant Features Editor (AFE) for The Plant Cell, I get to write small pieces highlighting research articles coming out in that issue. Being an AFE has been a great way to see cutting edge research early as well as gain experience writing. This most recent work was about differential pigment …
May 24, 2019 Congrats to Bre who did an awesome job on what was NOT an easy project. More good things to come!
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.
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!
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!)
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
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!
March 15, 2018 Congrats Caroline!!
