All research students from the lab presented their studies at the Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, and at the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2024 in Annapolis, MD.
June 2024
Sydney Brown talked about her research on cyanobacterium Microcoleus at the Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
June 2024
Dr. Rosalina Christova talked about freshwater harmful blooms at the Chesapeake Research Consortium Roundtable: UninHABitable: Harmful Algal Blooms Across the Watershed LINK
June 2024
Dr. Rosalina Christova organized the workshop “Algae and the Environment” at PEREC, attended by international and national phycologists and GMU students studying algae.
June 2024
Undergraduate summer scholars in our lab presented their research at the RISE Research Symposium in GMU.
May 2024
Our research on anatoxin-producing cyanobacterium Microcoleus from streams has been featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). LINK
May 2024
Emma Boyden collects data on mat-forming cyanobacteria associated with coral reefs near Roatan Island, Honduras, as part of her study, funded by the Litchfield Undergraduate in Environmental Microbiology Endowed Scholarship.
April 2024
The Association of Friends of the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin‑Dahlem, Germany, supported an international integrative molecular-morphological study of diatoms isolated in monoclonal cultures from streams in California in collaboration between Dr. Regine Jahn’s research team and Dr. Christova. Read more about the project here.
March 2024
Dr. Rosalina Christova and Sydney Brown present their research on the cyanobacterium Microcoleus at the US EPA Benthic HABs Discussion Group Webinar. LINK
March 2024
Emma Boyden received the GMU Litchfield Undergraduate in Environmental Microbiology Endowed Scholarship to study microalgal communities associated with Caribbean coral reefs.
Sydney Brown received award from the Endowment Fund for the Society for Freshwater Science to support her research on the cyanobacterium Microcolues.
February 2024
Dr. Rosalina Christova talks about the diatom genus Cocconeis from streams in California at the Diatom Web Academy. LINK
November 2023
Sydney Brown and Dr. Rosalina Christova present their research on Microcoleus at SETAC North America 44 th Annual Meeting, Louisville.
October 2023
Sydney Brown and Dr. Rosalina Christova present their research on the Shenoandoah algae at 45th Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy in Fort Pierce and Water Symposium at PEREC.
August 2023
The Algae Ecology Lab has moved to George Mason University in Virginia.