Outreach at the Engineering and Science Festival
Some lab members created a booth where the public could make beautiful microbe-inspired art. And Buster Bronco visited! See the post-event video below: microbe art takes center stage as the second clip right after the exploding trash can.
Dawn presents at the Murdock Partner's in Science Conference
In January, 2025 Dawn presented her research poster at the Murdock Partners in Science Conference in Portland, OR. We had a fun time with the Boise State team.
VIP Showcase and EURECA cording
Chadwick received a EURECA (Excellence in Undergraduate REsearch and Creative Activity) Graduation Cord and Megan and Abbagayle presented their research posters at the VIP showcase.
Halloween pumpkin carving!
Planting sagebrush seedlings
Elle, Denisse, and Leonora planted hundreds of sagebrush seedlings as part of Elle’s project and a collaboration with the City of Boise restoration team. People from two other courses also came to help in the afternoon. It turned out to be a beautiful day.
Welcome to Fiona!
Fiona Harrigian joined the Bittleston Lab and the Boise State EEB PhD program in August, 2024. We’re so happy to have you!
Ecological Society of America 2024 Conference in Long Beach
Many lab members attended the ESA conference in Long Beach in August 2024, and we had a blast! Jess, Jessica, Jacob and Leonora (and Fiona!) all gave talks and Denisse presented a poster. The MTM team also organized an oral session on “Understanding functional community assembly over time” with fantastic invited speakers. It was very well-attended and all talks were excellent! Our lab group stayed at a lovely AirBnB by the beach, and biked into the conference together using the city bike program. A few of us took the ferry to Catalina Island on the last day.
Pool party and good bye to Chih-Yun
We had a fun lab pool party, but were sad to say good bye to Chih-Yun and her family
Summer 2024 research team
We welcomed two high school students (Amaya and Katie) and three K-12 teachers (Dawn, Beth, and Erin) into the lab group for summer 2024. Not all are pictured here, but it was great to have their positive energy as part of the team.
