December 17, 2015: Congratulations to Austin Walthall! He was recently awarded a College of Arts & Sciences Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Undergraduate Research Award. 

October 19, 2015: We are happy to welcome to Fred Spiegel, Lora Shadwick, and Ethan from the University of Arkansas. They are here to work on amoebae in the lab. 

September 16, 2015: We are happy to welcome to Kina (Joaquina María García-Martín) to our lab for the next 3 months. Kina is a PhD student from Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC Madrid, Spain and is under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Lado. Kina is working on a Myxomycetes project with us. WELCOME!!!

September 11, 2015: Just getting back from the European Congress of Protistiology, a marathon of a meeting in Sevilla, Spain. Such a great meeting!

Library making!

May 28, 2015: Check out our new project website at http://amoeba.msstate.edu

May 5, 2015: The lab has been officially awarded our first NSF grant entitled "Examining the macroevolutionary trajectories in Amoebozoa, a major lineage of eukaryotes"! The grant is funded through the Division of Environmental Biology, Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster.