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Lab News
Aug. 2021 - Ashley Murphy is now Dr. Ashley Murphy and she is moving to PSI to work Mars2020 mission with Dr. Aileen Yingst!!! Congratulations Ashley!
Jul. 2021 - Ifeoma gave a talk "Subsurface Fluid Geochemistry Shape Microbial Community Structure and Function at Solfatara-Pisciarelli Hydrothermal Systems, Italy." at the Goldschmidt Conference. 

Microbes are ultimate survivors; they are found just about everywhere on Earth!

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More about microbes and our research you may find on next pages.​​​

Dec. 2020 - Please check our ENIGMA Tools of Science video:
Mar. 2021 - Ashley's second paper "Raman Spectroscopy Provides Insight into Carbonate Rock Fabric Based on Calcite and Dolomite Crystal Orientation" is published in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy; doi: 10.1002/jrs.6097
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Mar. 2021 - Pia Sen coauthored a paper with Charles Cockell "Microbially-enhanced vanadium mining and bioremediation under micro-and Mars gravity on the International Space Station", Accepted at Frontiers Microbiology,  doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.641387
Mar. 2021 - Our undergraduate LSAMP researcher, Tanisha Flats, has presented her poster “Formational Settings of Calcite, Aragonite, and Dolomite Minerals and the Resulting Minerals’ Characteristics: A Literature Review” at  2021 GS-LSAMP/NNJ-B2B Virtual STEM Research Conference.
Feb. 2021 - Ifeoma presented at Geobiology Symposium her "The Effect of Hydrothermal Subsurface Fluid Dynamics on Microbial Diversity Structure and Function at Solfatara-Pisciarelli Hydrothermal System, Italy" poster.
Dec. 2020 - Ashley's first paper is published at Sedimentary Geology, check it out!
 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105777