Lab News

	2014
>April 2014<	Undergrads successfully present their research at the 2014 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Poster Symposium. Excellent job!	Will Caraway
	Brittanie Kling	Jenn Wagner
>January 2014<	Important segregating mapping population showing progress. The plants in this grid are progeny resulting from crossing parents with different reproductive phenotypes. The pollen parent carried the gene for parthenogenetic embryo development, while the seed parent was wildtype normal (i.e., lacking parthenogenesis). If the progeny segregate for parthenogenesis, it will be the first time that this phenomenon has been demonstrated in flowering plants at the diploid level! This will greatly facilitate further genetic work.
	2013
>December 2013<	Dulcinea Groff, former M.S. student in the lab, stopped by on 26 Dec. Dulcinea is presently working on a Ph.D. on paleoecology in the lab of Dr. Jacquelyn Gill in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Dulcinea visited to help make ARCGIS distribution maps for Erigeron geiseri in Texas. We're hoping to submit a publication to JBRIT by the end of February.
>November 2013<	Noyes lab receives approval from Arkansas P3 for next-generation sequencing funds. $2806 will be used to sequence chloroplast genomes for 8 Asteraceae species. Chloroplast enrichment has been accomplished by Dr. Noyes and Brittany Kling and DNA has been sent to University of Texas, San Antonio for sequencing Illumina MiSeq. Analysis will be performed by Dr. Noyes and Dr. Jennifer Mandel, University of Memphis.
>October 2013<	Dr. Noyes and Dr. Larson's graduate student Jessie Needham attended the Missouri Botanical Garden Systematics symposium Jessie presented her poster entitled “Changes in seasonal pollinator community composition affect fruit set in an exotic, invasive vine.”
>July 2013<	Dr. Noyes and undergrad Jennifer Wagner attended Botany 2013, the national meeting of the Botanical Society of America, this year held in New Orleans, LA. Jennifer presented her talk "Evaluation of genome size variation in Erigeron (Asteraceae) via flow cytometry", while Dr. Noyes presented his talk "Dihaploidy and the origin of diploid apomicts in Erigeron (Asteraceae)". Jenn was one of only a handful of undergrads at the meetings giving a full talk presentation. Smashing job Jenn!
>May 2013<	Dr. Noyes and Jenn Wagner visited the lab of Dr. David Galbraith, University of Arizona, Tucson, to get advanced training in the use of a flow cytometer for measuring genome size in plants. They took one day to do a 7 mile loop hike from the top of Mt. Lemmon, just outside of Tucson.
	Jenn and Dr. Galbraith examining peaks on the Flow Cytometer.		Jenn in repose on Mt. Lemmon near the end of the hike.
	Valentino the pack goat we met on our hike.		Dr. Noyes near the observatory at the summit of Mt. Lemmon. You can't actually get to the spike marking the highest point (9157 ft), but hikers by convention allow you to bag the peak by touching the fence!