About Us

Research Themes
Current research themes include genome evolution and network evolution.
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Location
Our research lab is located in the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) Rm 2333.
Links
Department of Biological Sciences

News

August 2017
New paper in Applied & Environmental Microbiology

Detection of Diazotrophy in the Acetylene-Fermenting Anaerobe Pelobacter sp. Strain SFB93
Denise M. Akob, Shaun M. Baesman, John M. Sutton, Janna L. Fierst, Adam C. Mumford, Yesha Shrestha, Amisha T. Poret-Petersona, Stacy Bennett, Darren S. Dunlap, Karl B. Haase and Ronald S. Oremland

February 2017
Our first assembled metagenome

Metagenome-Assembled Draft Genome Sequence of a Novel Microbial Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Strain Isolated from Caenorhabditis remanei Tissue
Janna L. Fierst, Duncan A. Murdock, Chamali Thanthiriwatte, John H. Willis, and Patrick C. Phillips
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