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We’re onto the second stage for our experiments! We are currently evolving Candida glabrata over a temperature gradient to learn about potential cross tolerance to drug resistance. Our Arabidopsis thaliana seeds have been transferred to one growth chamber with a few pots flowering! Finally, we are in the last stage of our fish nutrients project analyzing data in R.

Our undergraduate research assistants Ijeoma and Sveta have been working hard juggling various projects this summer. For the College of Biological Science’s undergraduate research Poster Day, Sveta presented a poster on the temperature-dependence of population growth of Nakaseomyces glabrata, a part of their ongoing experiment about cross-tolerance between heat and antifungals in this fungal pathogen.

The summer research projects are well en route! The undergraduate research assistants have made a thermal performance curve of Candida glabrata as a part of a larger project about evolution of drug resistance in thermotolerant pathogenic yeast. Also, they have been growing Arabidopsis thaliana in preparation for a study on fitness effects of changing environmental cues. Lastly, they are finishing up a large-scale literature search on nutrient profiles in Great Lakes fish as part of a data synthesis project examining the relationship between fish nutritional value and their climate sensitivity.

Register for the first Annual Symposium for the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM) on Wednesday, June 21st! The vision for CEM is to partner with resource managers to become a world leader in organizing and conducting original and synthesis science needed to understand, monitor, and manage the health and sustainability of Great Lakes ecosystems.

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The undergraduates from Integrative Biology are kicking off their research with a pizza lunch. Thank you to everyone who came!

Joey and undergraduate research assistants Ijeoma and Sveta went to visit the Ness Lab at UTM. Thank you to Dr. Ness, we got treated to an awesome lab tour, pizza lunch and fun science chats with Yeshoda Harry-Paul, who is doing some very cool thermal biology with Chlamydomonas reinhardtii!

The lab welcomes two undergraduate research assistants! Ijeoma is entering her fourth year in 2023 in Environmental Governance minoring in Ecology and she is passionate about conservation with a strong interest in aquatic ecosystems. Sveta is entering her third year in Biodiversity with a minor in French Studies and she aims to pursue her interest in seafood climate sensitivity.

Joey attends ESA in Montreal!

Woohoo! Can’t wait to meet up with friends old and new!

We are starting up the Bernhardt Lab!

Get in touch if you or someone you know is interested in joining us!