We have broad interests in microbial-host interactions that have relevance to basic biology and applied biomedicine at multiple biological levels (i.e., genetic, ecological, evolutionary, and genomic), including the:
* January 2012 -New article published in Evolution that demonstrates the host microbiota relationshps between species parallel the host's phylogeny. Implications of the microbiota in eukaryotic speciation are discussed. The roles of host evolutionary relationships and development in structuring microbial communities (early view).
* December 2011 - New article published in PLoS One on the nested interactions between Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, Wolbachia, and bacteriophage WO. Temperature Affects The Tripartite Interactions Between Bacteriophage WO, Wolbachia, and Cytoplasmic Incompatibility.
* November 2011 - Congratulations to Kristin!! Her proposal to the National Institute of Health won a F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships. Big congrats to Kristin!
* October 2011 - Seth visits The Georgia Institute of Technology for a lecture in the Department of Biology; Seth lectures in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Conference at The Vanderbilt University Medical Center
* October 2011 - Congratulations to Lisa and Rob! Lisa wins the Ann Bernard Martin Award for excellence in graduate research and Rob wins the Hickory Stick Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in the Department.
* September 2011 - New article published in Plos One. Evolutionary Genomics of a Temperate Bacteriophage in an Obligate Intracellular Bacteria (Wolbachia).
