Last week, Lorena travelled to Colombia to teach a workshop in the analyses of genomic data. The workshop occurred at Colombia’s Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOS). We missed her in New Orleans, but we’re happy that 30 students were able to learn from Lorena’s expertise. [...] Dr. Lorena Torres Martinez teaches a ...
Last week, Lorena travelled to Colombia to teach a workshop in the analyses of genomic data. The workshop occurred at Colombia’s Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOS). We missed her in New Orleans, but we’re happy that 30 students were able to learn from Lorena’s expertise. [...] Outreach with Boys at Tulane in STEM!
The Van Bael lab hosted 3 great groups of boys last weekend and had some fun with pet endophytes. One student sent us a photo of his endophyte – see [...] New paper on fungal diversity in gall...
Congratulations to George Washburn on the publication of his first paper, “Fungal diversity in galls of baldcypress.” George worked on this project while earning his master’s degree at Tulane. He is now a Ph.D. student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Download the .pdf here! [...] ATBC meeting in Mexico
In July, Peter and Sunshine travelled to Merida, Mexico for the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Peter presented his research from Barro Colorado Island, Panama about endophytes and leaf traits. It was his first formal oral presentation at a conference and he did a great job! Sunshine presented about her [...] 
New Orleans biology teachers visit Pa...
This week, three biology teachers arrived in Panama to interact with the Van Bael lab, as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Teachers program. The Van Bael lab team is excited to be joined by Ms. Katie Adler (East Jefferson High School). Ms. Jodi Sanchez (Lusher Charter School, middle school) and Ms. [...]