Rachel, Kara, Parker and Kerry gave lab tours to 6 groups of first generation college freshman as part of the BioBridge program at ASU.

Ashley was awarded a prestigious undergraduate SOLUR Scholarship and Alex was promoted from SOLUR Scholar to SOLUR Fellow.

Parker Crossland successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled, “Intracellular Amplification for Applications in Single-cell DNA Sequencing,” to the whole department. What a showing!

Rachel, Kara, Natalie, Parker, Mohammad and Dylan presented posters at the Allied Genetics Conference in Washington DC. Go team!!

Kerry gave the opening talk in the session on complex trait genetics at the Allied Genetics Conference in Washington DC.

Leandra gave a well-received talk about her paradigm-changing work at the Allied Genetics Conference in Washington DC. Way to go Leandra!

We taught the public, including many youngsters, about yeast biology, DNA barcodes and what it means to be a scientist at ASU’s Open Door event attended by 2000 members of the local community.

Kara Schmidlin gave a well-received talk at the SMBE Satellite meeting on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution. Great work Kara!

Kerry co-organized an SMBE Satellite meeting on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution. There were 130 attendees, 47 talks, 27 posters and lots of great science!

Alex Sastokas was awarded a prestigious SOLUR scholarship to conduct research in the KGS lab. Congratulations Alex!

Leandra, Kerry, Natalie, Parker and Kara all attended and presentated their research at the Gordon conference on Mechanisms of Evolution in Easton MA.

Rachel Eder successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled, “Understanding the Heterogeneity in Gene Regulatory Responses to Misfolded Protein Toxicity”. She’ll be continuing in KGS lab as a PhD student. Congratulations Rachel!

KGS lab taught the public about DNA barcodes at ASU’s Open Door event attended by 1500 members of the public.

Rachel Eder gave a talk entitled, “Understanding the heterogeneity in gene regulatory responses to misfolded protein toxicity,” at the fourth annual AZ BioSci Southwest Symposium. Nice job Rachel!!

Leandra Brettner presented her new method for single-cell RNA sequencing in yeast at the YEAST meeting. Nice job Leandra!

Rachel Eder won first place in the undergraduate poster competition at the Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Meeting held by the Genetics Society of America. Congratulations Rachel!!

Sam Apodaca gave the first talk of the day (and the entire meeting!) at the Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Meeting held by the Genetics Society of America. A pretty intimidating thing for an undergraduate researcher, and he nailed it!

Vita Alexandra Samerotte was born on July 5, 2022.

Natalie Quan presented her poster entitled, “A novel high-throughput approach to measure the fitness effects of protein misfolding mutations,” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Congrats Natalie!

Kara Schmidlin gave an amazing talk about her drug resistance research at the Evolutionary Dynamics and Processes Meeting held at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Germany. Nice job Kara!

Rachel Eder sucessfully defended her undergraduate honors thesis on the subpopulatinos of yeast cells that are most sensitive to misfolded proteins. Congratulations Rachel!!

Daphne Newell sucessfully defended her undergraduate honors thesis on the fitness tradeoffs of mutations involved in resistance to anti-malarial drugs. Congratulations Daphne!!

Sam Apodaca sucessfully defended his undergraduate honors thesis on the evolution of drug resistance. Congratulations Sam!!

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

Our recent paper in eLife about building abstract genotype-phenotype-fitness maps has been summarized in an eLife digest.

Kara and Sam have started 12 evolution experiments, each one follows a population of ~500,000 barcoded yeast cells as they evolve drug resistance. Follow us on twitter! #KGSlabEvolves

Ichi, Gaurav and Kerry publish a review paper on why and how to study context dependence.

Dante Logan Samerotte was born on July 26, 2019.