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July 11, 2023

Our super star high school student, Saranya, just published her meta-analysis class project in Water Research. Her first pub and as lead author. Good job, Saranya. This is our class’ 57th publication.

Anantapantula, S. S. and A. E. Wilson. In press. Most treatments to control freshwater algal blooms are not effective: meta-analysis of field experiments. Water Research.

July 10, 2023

Jinhai just published his second paper and Andrea published her first paper from our Meta-analysis class!! These are our 55th and 56th class publications, respectively. Amazing!

Wang, J. and Y. Cheng. 2023. Enhancing aquaculture disease resistance: antimicrobial peptides and gene editing. Reviews in Aquaculture

Pietruska, A., C. Bortoluzzi, and R. Hauck. 2023. A meta-analysis of the effect of Eimeria spp. and/or Clostridium perfringens infection on the microbiota of broiler chickens. Poultry Science 102:102652.

Alan had a wonderful time at ASLO in Spain. Beautiful place and excellent food. Plus I was able to see graduated (Edna!) and incoming (Gabriela!) students. The HABs session was excellent. Lots of great talks. I presented Saranya’s meta-analysis in front of a huge screen.

May 23, 2023

Kaitlyn’s meta-analysis class project has been published! Super cool study, which is our 54th publication from our meta-analysis class. Nice job, Kaitlyn.

Murphy, K. M., S. M. Le, A. E. Wilson, and D. A. Warner. 2023. The microbiome as a maternal effect: a systematic review on vertical transmission of microbiota. Integrative & Comparative Biology

May 9, 2023

One of our remote high school researchers, Rebecca Chen, reported back that her algacide experiment project took home the 2nd place trophy in the Environmental category at the Connecticut STEM Science Fair. Good work, Rebecca.

May 6, 2023

Three of our super-star undergraduate researchers have graduated. We will miss you, Isabel, Rachel, and Evan.

April 11, 2023

Excited to report that my past PhD student, Dr. Edna Fernandez-Figueroa, just accepted a tenure track assistant professor position at the University of Tampa. She was also selected as the recipient for the COSAM Dean’s Research Award for a Postdoctoral Scientists in 2023! Congrats, Edna!

April 6, 2023

Saranya was awarded the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the World Aquaculture Society meeting in New Orleans. This is an amazing achievement for a high school student giving her first presentation at an international scientific conference. Great job, Saranya!

March 20, 2023

What a treat to have our friends at the Coosa Riverkeeper stop by the lab to discuss a new project to monitor water quality in their beautiful river.

March 3, 2023

Li Li’s lab has published an exciting paper showing how phytoplankton and bacteria influence off-flavors in cold-water aquaculture!

Li, S., F. Wei, X. Dong, M. Pan, L. Li, X. Tian, Q. Gao, and A. E. Wilson. 2023. Shift of phytoplankton and microbial communities cause seasonal dynamics of odor compounds in Oncorhynchus mykiss cultured in a freshwater reservoir. Aquaculture 570:739422.

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