Research Week Profile
Drashty was interviewed for a VCU homepage article to celebrate “Research Week” - check it out!
UNDERGRAD RECEIVES "BLACK HISTORY IN THE MAKING" AWARD
CONGRATULATIONS to La’Tila Abbott for being selected as a 2019 recipient of the “Black History in the Making Award” from the VCU Departments of Biology and African American Studies. We’re so proud of you La’Tila, and so grateful to have you as part of the lab!
Drashty gets REAL!
Drashty Mody has been working in the lab for about two years - first through the Environmental Scholars Program and most recently as part of the VCU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). She was just interviewed for a VCU news article about REAL experiences. Check it out!
Congratulations Shira!
Two students, two unique paths converge at VCU’s annual School of Medicine white coat ceremony
Great article about a former undergraduate in the lab - Shira Lanyi - on her unconventional journey to medical school.
Undergraduate research - Summer 2016
This summer, we were fortunate to host two students from the VCU Honors College Summer Undergraduate Research Program (HSURP). Shray Amin and Sunauz Moezzi each spent eight weeks in the lab working on independent projects related to our ongoing study of James River water quality. Shray worked primarily with Dr. Joseph Battistelli to study the distribution and diversity of thermotolerant Escherichia coli, while Sunauz worked with graduate student Enjolie Levengood to isolate several strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Enjolie and Sunauz received a Student Research Award from the VCU Rice Rivers Center and will continue working this fall to identify these organisms and assess them for multi-drug resistance. Oh my, these two used a LOT of plates!
Outreach at Patrick Henry Elementary
Click the picture to the left to read a VCU News story that describes an outreach event we just completed at Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts. We worked with ~30 students ages 5-9, and taught them about climate change and wetlands. We designed this week-long workshop to combine experiential learning about science within an arts-based curriculum. It was so much fun!
"VCU News" article about Ben's internship
Ben has been an undergraduate researcher in our lab since 2015. Click here to read more about his internship this semester, working for a local brewery called "Ardent Craft Ales."
Congratulations to Chansotheary!
We've very proud of M.S. student Chansotheary Dang for the outstanding presentation that she gave last week at the annual meeting of the Virginia Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. Her talk was entitled: The Impact of Saltwater Intrusion on Tidal Freshwater Wetlands' Microbial Communities.
Cumberland Marsh →
Take a tour of our field site!
Explore the tidal wetlands with Scott Neubauer, PhD, and his research team, and learn about their research out in the field and back at the lab at VCU. This video is part of a series of videos created for VCU students taking the Quantitative Biology course.
Congratulations to Joseph!!!
Graduate student Joseph Morina has just been awarded a Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship for his work on nitrogen cycling in freshwater wetlands. His research currently takes place at the VCU Rice Rivers Center.
Salinization system up and running!!!
Thanks to a tremendous amount of hard work by Olivia and Daniel, the field manipulation is ready to go! For more updates, visit our Facebook page.
Successful defenses!!!
This post is long overdue - Congratulations are in order for Chansotheary, David, and Joe, who successfully defended their M.S. thesis proposals this spring! Each of you did a REALLY good job and it should be an exciting summer of field work!
Welcome Daniel!
Daniel (Dong) Lee has just joined us to work on the NSF grant. Daniel finished his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland last year, working with Dr. Jeff Cornwell. Daniel will spend most of his time with Olivia down the hall in Dr. Neubaer's lab, and his research will focus on the ecosystem-level responses of tidal freshwater wetlands to saltwater intrusion. We're already putting Daniel's engineering skills to use - building anaerobic chambers and designing a solar-powered cell-phone-controlled irrigation system for our field-scale salinity addition.
