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April 3, 2024

April has already been great for the lab.

Matt Gladfelter won a Merriwether Fellowship, which is one of the highest honors for a graduate student.

During the recent This is Research Symposium, Ashley Hennessey won the best graduate student STEM poster, and Michael McDonald won the best graduate student poster for the College of Agriculture.

February 23, 2024

Zane’s new paper about toxic and stinky benthic cyanobacteria in rivers has been published in Water Research. Nice job, Zane.

Rider, Z., A. Percich, Y. Hiripitiyage, T. D. Harris, B. S.M. Sturm, A. E. Wilson, E. D. Pollock, J. R. Beaver, and A. Husic. 2024. Drivers of cyanotoxin and taste-and-odor compound presence within the benthic algae of human-disturbed rivers. Water Research 253:121357.

January 5, 2024

The WilsonLab is growing again. Welcome to the lab our new PhD student, Gabriela Ágreda López.

December 20, 2023

I had a chance to make a quick trip over to the rice capital of the US in Arkansas to support a cool biomanipulation project where small fish additions are being used to cut down on methane gas release in rice fields.

December 19, 2023

Congratulations to our super star high school student, Saranya Anantapantula, for getting accepted into the University of Pennsylvania’s Management and Technology program. Impressive!

December 15, 2023

Another productive year done for the WilsonLab! Excited to see what 2024 has in store for us.

The lab is losing two wonderful members. Suzie Tenison (below) has completed her M.S. (non-thesis) and Anna Claire Mollica has completed her undergraduate degree. Congrats! We are expecting big things from both of you. Of course, you will be missed. And, yes, Kate is levitating in the bottom picture.

December 6, 2023

Hannah has set a new record. Her second M.S. chapter was just published and she completed her M.S. last August. Nice work, Hannah, and rest of the lab. Large-scale field experiments are where it is at!

Zinnert, H. M., M. F. Gladfelter, S. E. Tenison, H. Peyton Poe, K. L. Merrill, A. V. Hennessey, M. B. McDonald, D. Wang, H. A. Torbert, and A. E. Wilson. 2024. Impacts of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum on water quality and the algal community in catfish aquaculture ponds. Aquaculture 581:740406.

November 21, 2023

Matt’s collaboration with Morgan Steffen’s lab at James Madison just produced a nice paper in Harmful Algae. Excellent work!

Baylous, H. R., M. F. Gladfelter, M. I. Gardner, M. Foley, A. E. Wilson, and M. M. Steffen. 2024. Indole-3-acetic acid promotes growth in bloom-forming Microcystis via an antioxidant response. Harmful Algae 133:102575.

November 13, 2023

Super quick trip to attend SETAC in Louisville to share Saranya’s meta-analysis paper. Michael and Ashley stayed the whole week and got much from the experience.

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