Wise Lab at UIC

Hey Folks! Tomorrow Friday, November 4 at 9 am the Wise Lab's own Matthew McCary will be giving his public dissertation talk. It will be on the fourth floor of SEL-W on UIC campus in room 4289. Breakfast refreshments will be served before.

Go see the Wise Lab undergraduate researchers, Alejandro Ruiz, Chris Gumienny, and David Castillo today at the LAS undergraduate research forum at the UIC Forum from 1-4 pm!

Wise Lab grad student Robin Mores is defending her dissertation, "Beyond the binary web: Using real-time PCR to quantify the structure of a spider-dominated food web: at NOON this Friday, March 11 in Science and Engineering Labs West in auditorium 4289. Party to follow!

New pub by the Wise Lab's Matthew McCary! Check it out.

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Welcome to our two new graduate students, Amanda Henderson and Nolan Bielinski! Stop by and say 'hi'!

Accepted in Ecological Applications!

Modeling the impacts of life-history traits, canopy dynamics, and establishment location on woodland shrub invasions

Basil V. Iannone III, Moira L. Zellner, and David H. Wise

Basil Iannone will be giving his dissertation exit seminar tomorrow at 4pm in SEL-W on the 4th floor. Come see Basil discuss his research and then stop by the Wise lab (SES 1454) afterward where we will be hosting a reception in Basil's honor.

The Charlotte goes to Space team received our Nanorack tube back from NASA on Tuesday Nov 27. With the school administrators and teachers as audience, the students and Cristian opened the spider containers to investigate the results. The experiment was a partial success with the girls determining that yes, our spider egg sacks did survive launch, yes they can develop and hatch, and it appears that they may have predated upon each other while in space (preliminary results from observations). Unfortunately no spiders survived the trip back, but to our surprise when we opened the spider test tube we found a partial detrital community of fungal mold, Mites, Nematores and Collembola, all of which hitched a ride on the leafs the egg sacks were attached to. I have added a picture of our "astronaut" collembola (Lepidocyrtus sp.)

Sending good vibes to Basil Iannone as he defends his dissertation today!