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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

• Award received from the US National Science Foundation to work on "Transcription and Translation in a Uniquely Compartmentalized Bacterial Cell", award #0920667, described here.

• Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Applied & Environmental Microbiology ("From Single Cells to the Environment")
  • Blaire contributed a poster "Bacterial Communities Associated With Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease As Determined By High Throughput Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA Genes", abstract here

• Ward lab algal bloom project selected for support under DOE JGI's 2010 Community Sequencing Program (CSP)

• Talk presented at SMBE meeting in Iowa City
  • Olga contributed a talk "Inferring Cases of Lineage-Specific Adaptive Evolution in Genomes of Planctomycete Bacteria", abstract here

• Talk presented at Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology
  • Naomi contributed a talk "Exploring the Cosmopolitan Phyla: Genome-Enabled Investigations of Verrucomicrobia and Planctomycetes", abstract here

• Antarctic notothenioid fish paper published in Extremophiles

• Acidobacterial genome paper published in AEM