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Undergraduate Students receive OURCI grants
John Tumberger and Gabi Shipman received a research grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative inquiry for the Fall semester of 2020. https://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement/?id=71019
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Undergraduate Students present work at the 19th Annual Kansas-IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Symposium
Gabi Shipman and John Tumberger were selected to present their work at the The 19th Annual Kansas-IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Symposium virtually January 14-15, 2021. https://k-inbre.org/documents/2021symposium/2021_symposium_booklet
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John Tumberger named Johnson Cancer Center Research Fellow
John Tumberger, an undergraduate researcher in the Olson Lab was named a Johnson Cancer Center Research Fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year. https://cancer.k-state.edu/awards/2020-2021StudentAwardees.html
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Volvocales – Losing genes, gaining complexity
Our paper on gene loss during the transition to multicellularity is available on BioRxiv. Here we show that as the volvocines gain biological and developmental complexity that they are losing more genes than they gain. Importantly, the result of this appear to be that their protein interaction networks are altered to do this. This was…
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Jess Rakijas featured at Select Science
Former post-doc Jessica Rakijas was recently featured at Select Science for her new role at Guardant Health.
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Volvox 2022 – Virtual
The Volvox 2022 meeting (https://www.volvox2022.org) will be virtual via zoom this year. Registration is free, so come and join us for three days of talks
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Join the Volvox community!
First, there is now a Volvox specific Slack channel – send an email to Brad for an invitation link. Second, we are starting monthly Volvox and volvocine algae specific virtual lab meetings. Email Brad for details on how to participate. Both are open to all researchers at all levels.
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Berenice wins “Best Young Scientist Presentation Award” at Volvox 2019
Bernice made a big splash at Volvox 2019 in Tokyo, Japan where her seminar was awarded “Best Young Scientist Presentation Award”. This is a huge honor from Bernice’s peers in the Volvox community.
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Transitioning the Olson Lab website
After the Hale library fire we lost a portion of our old website and are trying to reconstruct it from backups. Excuse our mess as we transition the Olson Lab website to a new host with its own domain.
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Research Fellowships Awarded
Congratulations to Sarah Cossey and Jaden Anderson. Both were awarded K-State College of Arts and Sciences laboratory research fellowships to support their research projects in the lab.
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