Duffy Lab News
Spring 2010:
2/15/10: Abbie has been profiled in the February edition of GT's Undergraduate Research News! Check out the story here.
2/11/10: Meghan has been awarded the Faculty Award for Academic Outreach from Georgia Tech, in recognition of the lab's outreach work with Piedmont Park.
1/10/10: Welcome to new Duffy Lab undergrads Tamanna Ahmed, Seda Grigoryan, Kristine Jansen, and Susie Lee! Seda and Tamanna will work on our new Clayton County Reservoir project, and Kristine and Susie will work on an ecotoxicology project.
Fall 2009:
12/28/09: Welcome to the newest Duffy Lab member, Milo Henry Thomas! Sara had her baby early this morning, and everyone is doing well.10/29/09: Congratulations to Sara Thomas! Sara won the School of Biology's VWR postdoctoral award for scientific excellence in experimental biology. As part of the award, Sara will give the departmental seminar on 11/19. More on the award can be found here.
8/21/09: Welcome to undergraduate Bonnie Ann Sarrell! Bonnie Ann will be working (at least initially) on a life table experiment involving Daphnia, parasites, and predators.
Summer 2009:
7/15/09: The Duffy Lab led an outreach day at Piedmont Park today, for campers aged 5-10. I think we may have had some future limnologists in the group! Pictures can be seen here.
6/9/09: Welcome to summer RET (Research Experience for Teachers) teacher Nikolai Curtis. Nikolai teaches biology at Grady High School in Atlanta, and will be working in our lab this summer.
5/29/09: Two new links have been added on the links page. One is to Wim van Egmond's Micropolitan Museum page, which has beautiful images of plankton (including Daphnia and rotifers). The other is to a very useful online key to zooplankton.
5/26/09: Welcome to summer REU students Zayani Sims (Spelman College) and Grace Wilkinson (St. Olaf College)!
5/22/09: The GT Earth Day page includes a picture of Jessie Housley (on right) and Katie Kenline (second from right) showing people about local plankton. This was the second year the Duffy Lab participated in the Earth Day festivities.
Spring 2009:
5/2/09: Congratulations to new graduate Jessie Housley! Jessie just earned her B.S. in Biology. We're very excited that she's staying on in the Duffy Lab to work as a technician on the Daphnia-Metschnikowia project.
5/1/09: Congratulations to Sara Thomas, who is now officially Dr. Thomas!
4/22/09: The Duffy Lab has created a "Which [freshwater] zooplankton are you?" quiz for Facebook! The quiz involves answering a series of questions, after which you will find out which freshwater zooplankton taxon best matches your personality. It can be found by searching for "zooplankton" on Facebook. We're hoping it will be a fun way to introduce some new people to the world of plankton.
3/20/09: Congratulations to Abbie Reynolds, who won a Presidents' Undergraduate Research Award! Abbie will be joining the lab this summer, and will work on zooplankton dynamics in the Congaree National Park.
3/17/09: The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant for work in the Duffy Lab on the joint influences of host genetic diversity and selective predators on eco-evolutionary host-parasite dynamics. More info can be found here.
3/8/09: We've added a new webpage containing pictures of some of our field sites. You can see the page here or from a link on the "Research" page.
1/13/09: Welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Sara Thomas.
1/5/09: Welcome to new undergraduate researchers Katie Kenline and Karla Van Rensburg.
Fall 2008:
12/13/08: Congratulations to new graduates Derek Deraps and Natalie Huch! Derek graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science (with highest honors) and Natalie graduated with a B.S. in Biology (with honors). Congrats to both!
9/28/08: Our research was recently featured in an article in Georgia Tech's Research Horizons publication. A pdf of the article can be found here.
8/18/08: Fall semester is here! Welcome to new grad student (and President's Fellowship Recipient) Rachel Penczykowski, as well as to new undergraduate researcher Jessie Housley.
Summer 2008:
6/10/08: Welcome to undergraduate researcher Laura Geronimo, visiting from Wesleyan University in CT for the summer.
5/5/08: Welcome to undergraduate researcher Sierra Schmidt.
Spring 2008:
4/4/08: Bye to Flat Stanley, who has gone back to Mrs. Justiniano's first grade class in Centerport, NY.
3/21/08: Natalie Huch and Sierra Schmidt have been awarded President's Undergraduate Research Awards for Summer 2008. Congratulations!
2/22/08: Welcome to Flat Stanley, who is visiting us from Mrs. Justiniano's first grade class at the Washington Drive Primary School in Centerport NY. See Flat Stanley doing field work here.
1/24/08: We've begun a journal club with several labs from Emory (Nicole Gerardo's, Jaap de Roode's and Todd Schlenke's), focusing on host-parasite interactions in invertebrates. A schedule can be found on Nicole's website.
Renovations to the Duffy Lab are complete!
Welcome to undergraduate researchers Derek DeRaps and Natalie Huch.
Fall 2007:
10/29/07: The Duffy Lab is officially online!
August 2007: Renovations to lab, office and greenhouse spaces are underway! Pictures will be posted in the future (maybe).