Spring 2026. Heidi defends her PhD dissertation!!

Spring 2026. Mikaela and Tori are awarded Montana Space Grant Consortium graduate fellowships! Nathan receives the UM Outstanding Student in Microbiology award!

August 2024. Welcome, Tori (new PhD student) and Jean-Marc (new postdoc)!

May 2024. Heidi is awarded the UM Graduate School Besancon Scholarship!

May 2024. Nathan presents his work on Acaryochloris thermotolerance at the UM Conference on Undergraduate Research!

April 2024. Heidi’s first paper on the Rhopalodiales-cyanobacterium symbiosis is published in The ISME Journal!

December 2023. Nikea defends her PhD dissertation!!

April 2023. Nikea and Heidi win Best Talk and Best Poster awards, respectively, at EVO-WIBO in Port Townsend, WA!

October 2022. Logan defends his Masters thesis - congratulations, Logan! Celebrations optionally included the “Grand Prismatic” cocktail (see photo), named for the iconic hot spring and engineered by UM grad students Sophie and Evan. Did it look better than it tasted? Yes. Yes, it did.