🐟 Environmental DNA + #Undergrads = INNOVATION! Explore how Integrative Biology undergraduates are pioneering #eDNA metabarcoding to detect freshwater fish. #STEMeducation #UndergradResearch University of Guelph News University of Guelph Kat Nolan 🌈🧬🦠 Nava Brimble Andreas Heyland 🧑‍🎓🧑‍🔬 ow.ly/pfWs50RsTV6

Super grateful to have had the opportunity to go out on Fairy Lake with Kat Nolan 🌈🧬🦠 , Koya and Reynald from the Heyland and Hanner labs! We had a great day observing wildlife, collecting algae and eDNA samples.

This week, the Bernhardt Lab had the opportunity to visit the Canadian Phycology Collection Centre at University of Waterloo. Thank you Heather, for showing us around and delivering our first purchased stock of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 15mL full of potential, hopes and dreams!

apparently some people still don't know about these??

👩🏾‍🔬It's Meet & Greet Monday! Say hello to Ijeoma Nwafor, an undergrad research assistant in our Senior Research Associate's lab here at the CEM 👋 Her current project? Studying resource-limited competition in freshwater phytoplankton😎 Bernhardt Lab #GreatLakes Integrative Biology

Anyone interested in career opportunities in the environmental field? You should check out this cool event coming up at my organization. The event is free but registration is required 👇

32 varieties of Hello Kitty algae will be on display next year at the 2025 Osaka Expo. It will be part of the National Museum of Nature & Science’s exhibition

New to Nature Communications, we review how non-coding RNAs, transposons, microproteins, and other functional elements besides canonical ORFs contribute to fitness across the fungal kingdom, and the new tools we have to characterize them Rebecca Shapiro (nature.com/articles/s4146…)

🚨🦠The Algae That Eats Carbon & Sinks Like a Rock🦠🚨 Chonkus (UTEX 3222), a newly discovered cyanobacteria from Italy’s volcanic coast, rapidly doubles in CO₂-rich env, achieves high-density growth & sinks naturally—ideal for cost-effective #mCDR & bioproduction DETAILS🧵1/9

GEOG 4900* Special Topics in Biology Poster Showcase day! Thanks to the Grade 10s in the CELP Program for coming by to check out our research! 🌎🌳🪻

Along with a team of students & Dr. @JennSunday @McGillU, Dr. Joey Bernhardt Integrative Biology has developed a series of interactive tutorials that integrate fundamental knowledge in ecology and evolution with open science concepts and skills. #SCRIBE 🗞️: uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/2024/…

This quick guide to data visualization will save your life. (I learned this after messing up 100+ charts) Ever stared at your data and thought: "Bar chart? Line graph? Scatter plot?" After reviewing 1000+ visualizations, here's what nobody tells you:

New #tidyplots cheatsheet 🤩 tidyplots.org/cheatsheet #rstats #dataviz #phd

We love to see everyone #StandUpForScience!

Choosing the right plot to visualize your data can be challenging. That’s why my online course, Data Visualization in R Using ggplot2 & Friends, features an entire section with 9 modules dedicated to different plot types and their applications. Here’s an overview of the plot

I loved this essay on scientific writing in Nature Biotechnology (rdcu.be/edUCp). It highlights a key lesson I’ve applied throughout my career: the power of reading, thinking, and keeping a notebook with your ideas. Let me explain why this matters… 🧵👇

I am so grateful to have been recognized at the University of Guelph Department of Athletics Part Time Staff Banquet as the 2024-2025 Service and Dedication Award recipient. Thank you so much to my team and my amazing supervisors who have mentored through the years! #gogryphs

What a year!! Me and the fellow Bernhardt Lab undergrads. This group has been incredible to work with for the past year and more. We’ve learnt, cried, laughed and celebrated our success together. There’s no one else I would’ve wanted to do this else with! #womeninscience 💚🪰🌱

Dr. Joey Bernhardt, Assistant Professor and researcher with the CEM at the University of Guelph, has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America (ESA)! Her work is helping shape the future of ecosystem science — read more about this exciting honour: