The human gut is shaped by environmental factors, producing distinct microbial communities. Indigenous individuals practicing traditional lifestyles often harbor more diverse microbiota, with taxa often absent in industrialized people. However, little engagement has occurred with …
Year: 2026
Lab outing!
The lab was able to get out of the heat this July and visit the Cave of the Mounds! A BBQ and Cards Against Humanity rounded out this break from the heat.
Beatrice Severance prelim passed and award at Microbiology Society meeting
The graduate students in the Anderson lab do amazing things. In recognition of all of that awesomeness, I want to take a moment to highlight all of the great things Beatrice has accomplished since January …
In the lit: Parasex generates highly recombinant progeny in Candida albicans with increased virulence
Candida albicans is a major human fungal pathogen that reproduces by mitotic growth of diploid cells but can also undergo a parasexual cycle. The latter involves an uncoordinated process of ploidy reduction via aberrant mitotic divisions …