Lab News Archive
5/1/01
Fabian Romen, and undergraduate
from Germany, has joined the lab for the summer.
3/8/01
Next week we'll be getting some additional lab space in Rm 204 Vail. Things were getting a little crowded so it will be nice to expand into some new space. This space was given to us by Dr. Nick Jacobs who will be staying in his office in 204A. Thanks Nick! Come by an take a look.
The new space.
2/10/01
We just returned from our Departmental
Retreat at the Minary Center on Squam Lake (the lake from the movie "On
Golden Pond") in central New Hampshire. Most of the attendees were
from Dartmouth, but we also had visitors from the UMass Med. School, Smith
College, UVM, and Middlebury College. Here are a couple of pictures
from the weekend.
8/7/00
Check out group photos from our
recent trip to Big Sky Montana for the Biofilms 2000 Conference.
It was a terrific conference in a wonderful location!
Sherry, George, Thienny
at the conference site.
Sherry, Thienny, George & Mary Ellen with a geyser erupting
behind us at Yellowstone National Park.
6/11/00
Thien-Fah (Thienny) Mah has joined the lab as a post-doctoral fellow. She comes to us from the University of Toronto and she'll be working on biofilm development in P. aeruginosa.
Also, yesterday was Class Day at
Dartmouth Medical School. The guest speaker was John Irving,
author of The Cider House Rules
and Hotel New Hampshire.
John Irving delivering his speech.
4/10/00
Here's a picture of Manolo Espinosa from his recent visit to my lab. Manolo and I were post-docs together.
Manolo made paella (a traditional Spanish rice dish) for the lab.
3/1/00
What do the grad students and post-docs
do in their spare time in Hanover in the winter?
Build a snow-person, of course!
2/16/00
Check out the newest images from our microscope. The image is of P. aeruginosa with a GFP-expressing plasmid forming microcolonies on a epithelial cell line that lacks a functional CFTR protein.
Image by Sherry Kuchma
1/11/00
Happy New Year!
The new year has started off well.
Two students, Nicky Caiazza and Niles Donegan, are rotating in the lab.
Sherry Kuchma, a fellow Badger, will be joining the lab as a post-doc on Feb. 1.
It looks like it will be a fun,
but busy, term.
11/15/99
The first lab pictures.
Shannon, George, & Mary Ellen
Steve Finkel visits the lab.
11/5/99
A recent reference I came across convinces me that there really is nothing new under the sun!
"...it is quite evident that for
the most part water bacteria are not
free floating organisms, but grow
upon submerged surfaces"
Arthur T. Henrici
Journal of Bacteriology
(1933) 25:277-287
Some recent good news. Thien-Fah
(Thienny) Mah from the University of Toronto will be joining the lab this
spring as a Post-doc to work on biofilms in P. aeruginosa.
11/1/99
The lab is up & running we are
just waiting for the microscope. Mary Ellen Davey started in lab
today and we had our first official lab lunch. The lab also has a
rotating graduate student, Shannon Hinsa from the University of Wisconsin,
who is working on the P. fluorescens project.
8/21/99
Welcome to Hanover! Well,
the lab is cleaned up, ready to go, and the equipment is pouring in.
I'm looking forward to the start of the semester, rotation students, and
the arrival of two post-docs - Mary Ellen Davey from Michigan State University
and Sherry Kuchma from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.