Rich Lab:In the News

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This is the page for SWES-MEL members or projects in the news! (most recent at top)

• Center of Microbiome Science at The Ohio State University! Dr. Matt Sullivan is the center's founding faculty director New Center of Microbiome Science is in the works at Ohio State. March 2020

• Check out this Rueters article & video on methane "Special Report: The three young women racing to defuse a climate-change bomb" , in which Ruth has the memorable quote, “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic”, and Varner Lab grad student Katie Bennett - who has done a ton to help IsoG sampling in 2018 and 2019 - is profiled in the video. September 20, 2019

• The DOE Office of Science highlights the IsoGenie Project! "Microbial Types May Prove Key to Gas Releases from Thawing Permafrost" and DOE Newswise "Newswise". Jan 2019

• Lab PhD student Gary Trubl's work is featured in the DOE's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) blog; Gary is at the JGI for 6 months on a prestigious DOE SCGSR fellowship to work with Dr. Simon Roux (former member of VirusLab) "At the Forefront of Terrestrial Virus Research". September 25, 2018.

• Ohio State University News features Dr. Virginia Rich and highlights 3 recent publications from IsoGenie’s collaborative research in Abisko, Sweden in “Getting to know the microbes that drive climate change”. Publications are in Nature, Nature Microbiology, and ISME Journal. July 16, 2018.

• Nature's Research Microbiology Community publishes back-to-back "Behind the Paper" pieces on the Woodcroft & Singleton et al Nature paper and on the Emerson et al Nature Microbiology paper!

• Nature Podcast: DNA scaffolds, climate-altering microbes, and a robot chemist highlights IsoGenie's recent Nature publication led by team members Benjamin Woodcroft, Caitlin Singleton, and Gene Tyson at the University of Queensland. Listen to Benjamin and Caitlin Singleton (7:40-13:19 min) discuss their work. July 18, 2018.

• Dr. Virginia Rich is profiled as one of OSU's "Women in Stem" in the College of Arts and Sciences’ annual magazine, ASCENT, Spring 2017 (Fourth story down)

• Dr. Virginia Rich is featured in Ohio State University's student newspaper, The Lantern, "Ohio State scientist aims to reinforce women’s leadership in STEM". February 8, 2017.

• In the University of Arizona URBP Gazette, undergraduate lab member Rose Vining describes the experience of presenting at the 2016 AGU conference. "Presenting at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) National Conference". February 1, 2017.

• Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences new article "Microbiologist Leads Climate Change Study" features IsoGenie - a three-year project, funded by a $3.75 million Department of Energy Genomic Science Program grant beginning September 2016. November 1, 2016.

• University of Arizona UBRP awards Moira Hough an Honorable Mention for the "Outstanding Graduate Student/Postdoc/Technician Mentor" award, to be announced at the 28th Annual UBRP Conference on January 21, 2017.

• University of Arizona News article "'Microbial Pac-Man' May Soon Hit 'Game Over'" features some members of the IsoGenie team including UA undergraduate Rose Vining and UA doctoral student Moira Hough. October 10, 2016.

• Sveriges Radio 20-minute program on IsoGenie sampling in Stordalen Mire and shorter news report in Sveriges Radio morning news. September 13, 2016.

• Daily Wildcat article featuring undergraduate researcher Rose Vining talking about her field work experience in Abisko. July 26, 2016.

• OSU's College of arts and sciences news Gary Trubl, microbiology graduate student, represents Ohio State as a Summer School Scholar at the 2016 NASA Astrobiology Institute/Santander International Summer School at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain, June 20–24, 2016.

• COSMOS Magazine (https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/what-happens-if-permafrost-disappears) with lab collaborators Suzanne Hodgkins (Florida State University) and Ben Woodcroft (University of Queensland)

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• UBRP Gazette (https://ubrp.arizona.edu/anderson-presents-her-research-at-the-american-geophysical-union-meeting-in-san-francisco/) with undergraduate student Darya Anderson talking about her experience at American Geophysical Union Conference

• Daily Wildcat interview with PhD student Gary Trubl featuring an outreach event called Saturday Science Academy

• ClimateWire piece on McCalley et al

• Washington Post piece on McCalley et al with interview-quotes from V Rich

• Science Dailystory on McCalley et al

• UANews Press Release on Carrie McCalley's Nature paper, on our thawing permafrost project, with our Australian, Swedish, and Floridian collaborators. Co-authors include SWES-MEL's PI Virginia Rich and former post-doc Eun-Hae Kim.

• Daily Wildcat interview with Dr. Virginia Rich and PhD student Gary Trubl featuring our lab's work on climate change

• Daily Wildcat interview with PhD student Gary Trubl on Astrobiology and UA's efforts

• Arizona Illustrated television interview with PI Virginia Rich on our project on thawing permafrost microbiology and carbon cycling

• ScienceDaily profiles the Hodgkins et al paper on organic matter changes in thawing permafrost

• UANews profiled our Nature Communications paper, led by collaborating Tyson Lab, that describes the discovery of a novel and highly active methanogen in thawing permafrost systems

• UQ (institution of partner lab of Gene Tyson) did a press release for the IsoGenie Team's Nature Communications paper

• The paper introducing Candidatus Methanoflorens stordalenmirensis is now out in Nature Communications!!

• UANews profiled the funding of our continued work on the thawing permafrost gradient in Sweden.
  

• Here is our collaborator Gene talking to his university in a snazy video about this work, which also shows our field site.
  

• And here's the press release about SWES-MEL postdoc and driving force Dr. Eun-Hae Kim receiving one the prestigious Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellowships. Go EK!

• Here's a compelling video that SWES-MEL grad student Lynn Massey, who also works in science journalism and communication, made this spring about another SWES-department lab, that of Kevin Fitzsimmons.