Exhilarating news from the Journal of Phycology: our paper has been recognized as a Top Cited Article 2021-2022! with the work of my graduate student Dr. James T. Melton III (now at Spelman College). “Diversity of the green macroalgal genus Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) from the east and gulf coast of the United States based on molecular data.”

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Here we document the use of environmental DNA metabarcoding, using the partial LSU rDNA and 23S rDNA plastid molecular markers, to elucidate littoral algal diversity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

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Codium pulvinatum is a new species we described for the Arabian Sea which has been found already as a recently introduced species into the Meditarrean Sea! Read about it by clicking here Codium pulvinatum

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For decades we have not been able to amplify or sequence common genes from the Cladophorales, an order of abundant marine and freshwater green algae, now we found the reason why! Click here to read this new discovery!     Cladophorales

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Our new publication has received great attention from Nature News and Scientific American News: Click HERE http://www.nature.com/news/strange-seaweed-rewrites-history-of-green-plants-1.19863

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Congratulations to Gabriela Garcia-Soto and Trey Melton, grad students at the Phycolab in being honored with the 2014-2015 Aquatic Enhancement Fellowship from UA!  🙂

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Congratulations to graduate student Gabriela Garcia-Soto, she is the recipient of the 2014 E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Fellowship Award. Here she is receiving the award from E. O. Wilson!

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