The Wall Lab is pleased to welcome Cole Grannan and Dayna Yaloff as new team members; Cole is finishing his Master’s thesis at UNC, working for us as a Lab Assistant and Dayna is in the Honors program at CSU majoring in Biology. Cole Grannan Dayna Yaloff
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Attend a day-long symposium to discover how nematodes are utilized to achieve innovative breakthroughs in biological research. Meet other nematologists in the Front Range region, learn about current local research, and enjoy food, drinks, and poster presentations. Participate in a panel discussion about Ph.D. challenges and tools, and hear from keynote speaker Shaul Yogev about
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The Wall Lab is working diligently to identify nematodes within samples from around the world that were sent for processing to the lab of Dr. Carlos Guerra, Co-Chair of the Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (SoilBON) at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). Currently 200 samples have been identified to the feeding group and
Former Wall Lab undergrad Abby Jackson, a Master’s student at BYU studying the genetic structure of Scottnema lindsayae is now working with long-time Wall Lab collaborator Byron Adams in Antarctica. Pictured below, Abby stops for a picture in the McMurdo Station Laboratory alongside Jesse Jorna, a biology PhD student at BYU who has been researching
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Soil Biodiversity Observation Network The Wall Lab is part of an international partnership that collaborates with the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) and other international and regional partners to make the soil biological and ecosystem observations necessary to guarantee that living soil resources are sustainably conserved and managed and
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Former Wall Lab postdoctoral research scientist and Executive Director of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) has been featured in the Chicago Tribune for her work at Nachusa Grasslands about 95 miles west of Chicago. Check out the article at their website!
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A YouTube video produced by BYU University Communications highlights a primitive insect-like creature that has survived 30 ice ages and was recently rediscovered in Antarctica by a team of scientists who had been searching for it for decades. “This is what we affectionately refer to as the ghost collembola,” says BYU biology professor Byron Adams,
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Our paper in Functional Ecology explores root herbivory, water availability and above and belowground biomass, and it shows how soil fauna can regulate the way grasses respond to climate change. A plain-language summary of the paper can be accessed here, and our blog post in Functional Ecologists details the behind the scenes for this research. Franco,
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The DNA of tiny Antarctic invertebrates holds clues to past climates and the ancient history of a massive ice sheet. Learn more in this new paper from Diana Wall and colleagues. Collins, G. E. et al. Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Proc. Natl.
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