Look’it those bivalents!

Julia has officially leveled-up to Chromosome Counter Extraordinaire! You can see the chromosomes! In the cell! With your eye! How cool is that???

Julia counts 81 chromosome pairs/bivalents/tetrads. So since the base number of chromosomes in Cystopteris is x=42, there are presumably 84 pairs present, meaning that this plant it is a tetraploid. Thank you to Mike Windham and James Beck for helping us continue the cytological dark arts!

Caleb has joined the lab!

We (rLab sensu stricto, lato, and everything in between) are excited to welcome Caleb Onoja Akogwu to the lab!! Fresh from a summer of finishing his Master’s (in China), visiting family (in Nigeria), and completing a major fellowship application, Caleb has settled right down to a relaxing semester as a new PhD student. So great to have you here Caleb!