August 2020
Welcome to our new rotation student, Anastasiia Beliaeva!
August 2020
Congratulations to Celeste Banfill on her rapid transition from Ph.D. candidate to Middle School Science teacher. We wish you all the best!
November 2019
Celeste successfully defended her thesis proposal and advances to candidacy! Congratulations Celeste!
August 2019
The Symbiosis@UMBio webpage launches! Check it out.
December 2018
Max graduated from undergraduate and joined the lab as a Research Associate.
September 2018
Ed successfully defended his thesis proposal!
Ed published his first paper on the mTOR pathway in aphids!
March, 23rd 2018
Honglin Feng successfully defends his dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Feng!
December 22nd, 2017
Honglin’s aphid/Buchnera miRNA paper was published!
August 2017
Celeste joined the Wilson Lab!
May 2017
Alex receives notification of her promotion to Full Professor of Biology effective June 1st 2017
April 2017
Alex receives Outstanding Graduate Program Director Award, University of Miami Graduate School, 2016-2017
October 2016
Yu-Ching defends her M.S.. Well done Yu-Ching!
July 2016
Ed James arrives in Miami and joins the Wilson lab. Welcome Ed!
April 15th 2016
Rebecca Duncan receives Graduate Student Exemplar Award from the University of Miami Graduate School!
April 8th 2016
Edward James commits to joining the Wilson Lab as a PhD student Fall 2016. We are looking forward to having you here Ed!
March 30th 2016
Honglin Feng successfully defends his dissertation proposal! Way to go Honglin!
March 29th 2016
Rebecca Duncan successfully defends her dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Duncan!
January 7th 2016
PhD Student Rebecca Duncan has been awarded a Miller Fellowship from the Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science to do her postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley. Way to go Rebecca!
June 11th 2015
Day’s Edge Productions announce the production of our NSF funded films about symbiosis and our group’s work with aphid amino acid transporters! See the films on Vimeo:
film 1 – Symbiotic Super Powers
film 2 – Aphids are weird!
film 3 – Inside the Pea Aphid
film 4 – From Pests to People
Enjoy!
February 11th 2015
New postdoc Dr Nicolas Durand joins the lab. Welcome Nico!
January 9th 2015
Rebecca Duncan receives award from The Ambrosia Symbiosis Research Group for her paper: Duncan RP, Husnik F, Van Leuven JT, Gilbert DG, Dávalos LM, McCutcheon JP, Wilson ACC (2014) Dynamic recruitment of amino acids transporters to the insect-symbiont interface. Molecular Ecology, 23(6): 1608-1623. AND Rebecca tied in 2nd place with Rob Kozol from the Dallman lab for her poster entitled “A comparative look at host/symbiont regulation in sap-feeding insects” at the University of Miami, Department of Biology’s 6th Annual Graduate Student Symposium! A doubly good day for Rebecca. Congratulations Rebecca!
January 5-9 2015
We are working with Day’s Edge Productions to film four short films about Symbiosis, Aphids, Amino Acid Transport and being a scientist. This project is funded by National Science Foundation Award IOS-1354154 to Wilson and Luetje.
December 2014
Two new Wilson Group publications:
1. Price DRG, Wilson ACC (2014) A substrate ambiguous enzyme facilitates genome reduction in an intracellular symbiont. BMC Biology 12:110.
2. Wilson ACC, Delgado RN, Vorburger C (2014) Biased transmission of sex chromosomes in the aphid Myzus persicae is not associated with reproductive mode. PLoS ONE 9(12):e116348.
August 25th 2014
The National Science Foundation makes an award to fund our research for another 4 years! NSF IOS-1354154 to Wilson and Luetje.