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. 

April 28, 2015: Brown was named as the researcher of the month (April/May 2015) by the College of Arts & Sciences at Mississippi State University. http://cas.msstate.edu/research

April 10, 2015: Nicholas Bailey will be presenting his poster during the 8th Annual Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium at Mississippi State University today. 

March 31, 2015: A new book chapter co-authored by Brown in "Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life" is finally out! http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9642-2_1

March 18, 2015: Brown was named as the recipient of the 2015 College of Arts & Sciences Research Award for the Natural & Physical Sciences. 

March 17, 2015: Check out our lab's youTube Channel. We have made some really exciting time lapse videos of sorocarp development in Copromyxa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoB4_KMMRHI

March 22-28, 2015: Dr. Dan Lahr from the Universidade de São Paulo will be visiting the lab! http://www.ib.usp.br/zoologia/lahr/. Dan is a world expert on testate amoebae. Welcome Dan!

February 24, 2015: Alex Tice training Pamela Watson in the unique art of protosteloid isolation. 

January 27, 2015: Alex Tice seems to have figured out how to get Copromyxa to fruit continually in culture. Here is an image of a sorocarp that we took this morning.