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Congratulations to Seth for his recent publication in the International Journal for Parasitology! Seth studies the reproductive behavior and ecology of monogenea (ectoparasitic flatworms) on bluegill, a type of freshwater sunfish. His paper is about parasite body size/density relationships and how it relates to reproduction.
Click here to read his paper called "Monogenean body size, but not reproduction, increases with infracommunity density"!
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Congratulations to Dylan Simpson, Lucia Weinman, and the Winfree Lab for their new publication titled “Many bee species, including rare species, are important for function of entire plant—pollinator networks” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B!
Plants in nature depend on a diverse bee community, including rare bee species. Dylan and Lucy's study finds that, while few bee species are important to any one plant species, the number of important bees increases rapidly as more plant species are considered. This is because different bees are important to different plants. Previous research, which typically focused on crop monocultures, has shown that pollination often depends on just a few common bees. In contrast, this study finds that even rare bees can be important to particular plants. These results suggest that ecologists have likely underestimated the importance of bee diversity for pollination in diverse, natural ecosystems. Click here to read their paper! Congratulations to Bobby Kwait for his paper published in Conservation Science and Practice! His paper is titled "Whole-room ultraviolet sanitation as a method for the site-level treatment of Pseudogymnoascus destructans." This fungal pathogen causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that kills bats. Read about it here at this link.
 Julia has a new paper in the American Society of Microbiology’s Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education entitled “The Diverse World of Protists—an Ideal Community with which to Introduce Microscopy in the Microbiology Teaching Laboratory.” It’s a short paper on how to incorporate protists and microscopy into lab courses at all levels. The supplement also contains a bunch of teaching materials anyone can use or adapt!
Check out her article here! You can also catch up with Julia on Twitter @couchmicroscopy.  Congrats to our own Max McCarthy for being featured in the New York Times! Max (Winfree Lab) studies metapopulations of a rare specialist bee, Andrena parnassiae, in the fens of northern New Jersey.
You can read his article at this link.  Abigail's second dissertation chapter was recently published in the journal Fisheries Management and Ecology! Her study focuses on the impacts of thunderstorm‐related hydrological changes on fishes’ vulnerability to two fishing gears in Mongolia. Check out the paper here!
 Jaeyln Bos, a PhD student in the Pinsky Lab, was just awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship! The NDSEG will fund three years of her PhD studies. Congratulations, Jaelyn!
 Julia wrote an article for the November issue of Microscopy Today magazine entitled "Red Algal Extremophiles: Novel Genes and Paradigms". Her micrographs were also used as the cover art for the issue. Check out the article here!
 Grad students Zoë Kitchel, Jeewantha Bandara, Jaelyn Bos, and René Clark, alongside lab tech Dan Forrest and PI Malin Pinsky formed a book club late last year in order to review the book Ocean Recovery: a Sustainable Future for Global Fisheries? by Ray and Ulrike Hilborn, for the American Fisheries Society. It was a great way to stay connected when we're all working remotely! The review is now available online, check it out here!
 Evan Drake, a fourth-year PhD student in Brooke Maslo's lab, was featured on WMBC-TV on Halloween night. He shared his expertise on our relationship with "scary" animals and what makes them tick. Check out his interview here!
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