Summer updates

ECCWO 2018 Krueger-Hadfield lab presentation on complex life cycles by Will Ryan

The summer passed by extremely quickly. I will be posting (soon I hope) about the summer field work and conference over at The Molecular Ecologist. But a brief run down of our summer of sampling.

​After returning from France, Will and I attended the ECCWO meeting in Washington DC. Will gave a talk in a session I co-organized. We, then, went to the field in Virginia and spent some time in the mud and Walmart innovating different contraptions for some work we have started out on the eastern shore.

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We parted ways and Will went to Amy Fowler's lab for some experiments. We met up again in California where I gave a seminar at the Bodega Marine Lab. Will and I sampled the central California coast before I left for the UK and Will stayed on the west coast to do a repeat of the SAKH Lab Mexico to Canada sampling (just from south to north instead of north to south). I went to work with Michael Cunliffe at the Marine Biological Association on some endophyte work with macroalgae. Will and I met up again at the Phycological Society of America meeting, where we were joined by a new grad student in the lab, Rebecca Wilcox. Now we're back in Alabama gearing up for the fall semester and getting used to humidity again.

Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.

Left to right: Grad student Rebecca Wilcox, post-doc Dr. Will Ryan, and PI Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield at the PSA-ISOP 2018 meeting.