Welcome to the Ward Lab
The research lab of Naomi Ward is found within the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wyoming. Naomi is also affiliated with the Department of Botany and Program in Ecology. We are located in Laramie, Wyoming.
General research interests:
Microbial community structure and function
Interactions between microbes and their environment
Evolution of new function in microbial genomes
News:
07/26/11: Daryl leaves the Ward lab (with Master's degree in hand) to enter a PhD program at the University of Vienna, working with Dr Matthias Horn. Bon voyage, Daryl!
06/21/11: Blaire and Naomi publish a pyrosequencing study of freshwater planctomycetes in "Aquatic Microbial Ecology"
05/16/11: Olga joined Summer Internship Program at J. Craig Venter Institute.
01/11/11: Naomi, Martin Klotz, and co-authors describe a new species of marine ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in "FEMS Microbiology Ecology"
12/24/10: Daryl publishes his first paper in "Archives of Microbiology". Congratulations Daryl!
12/22/10: Naomi and Martin Klotz publish a "Grand Challenge" article for the new open-access journal "Frontiers in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology" (click "Provisional PDF" for a formatted version)
12/21/10: It's here! Volume 4 of the second edition of "Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology", which Naomi helped edit. All the latest on the planctomycetes, verrucomicrobia, and other great microbes.
11/3/10: Olga publishes her first Ward lab paper in the open-access journal "Genome Biology and Evolution". Congratulations Olga!
11/1/10: Gone but not forgotten... Ward lab postdoc Dr Blaire Steven moves on to a new position working with Dr Cheryl Kuske at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico. Good luck Blaire!
10/9/10: Olga presents her work on whole-genome analysis of Desulfovibrio species at the Eighth Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics, Ottawa, Canada.
Featured Lecture:
Michael Specter - The Danger of Science Denialism
