After a miserable previous season, with not a mushroom in sight, we were relieved to find plenty of mushrooms this time around. Well, maybe not “plenty”, but enough for a very nice dinner. Moby has found a perfect matsutake (Tricholoma magnivelare), and Emily found the rare cauliflower mushroom (Sparassis crispa). Beginners luck, I say. We also got a good haul of black trumpets, winter chanterelles, and angel wings, with a few hedgehog mushrooms and candy caps sprinkled in. No leftovers this time!
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Mark the date – Sunday January 11. There’s been plenty of rain on the coast so far, so we have reasons to be optimistic about the harvest!
Emily Kay is joining our lab, having done some wonderful work in rodents. Emily seemed surprised to hear that 20 days is a long generation time. I am sure that will change.
It’s a miracle – Judy managed to get the whole lab together on the same day. Never worked for me… maybe she should be in charge of organizing all lab activities from now on?
We had a great hike in Desolation Wilderness, culminating in a pleasantly cool (sic) swim in Lake of the Woods. We even got caught in a rare summer rainstorm on the way back.
Stay tuned for fall activities.
We are excited for their future, but sad to see them leave:
Daniel is now a graduate student at Stanford, where he will be studying ant behavior and evolution
Don is at the NIH for Intramural Research Training
Jane is back home enjoying some much needed R&R before applying to medical schools.
Good luck, guys!
This was very hard and thankless work, but the DMRT phylogeny, such as it is, is out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24903586. Let us hope it will bring some order to the classification of DMRT paralogs in non-model species.
Gavin has been selected to participate in the 2014-2015 Professors for the Future program. Congratulations!
Daniel has been awarded a Citation for Outstanding Performance from the College of Biological Sciences. The ceremony will be held in the ballroom in the ARC on Friday, May 23, 2014. It is open to the public. Congratulations, Daniel!
Gavin’s poster on dsx enhancers wins second place at the Drosophila research conference.
Daniel receives the Stanley and Jacqueline Schilling Award from UC Davis. Congratulations!