
{"id":376,"date":"2025-03-04T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/?p=376"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:21:21","slug":"spring-break-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/spring-break-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break musings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re in the midst of a busy spring semester and it is a little quiet now over spring break. I wanted to highlight a bit of what we have been up to. Grad student <strong>Dallas Moses<\/strong> gave a research talk to Envirothon students from local schools as part of a UNC Charlotte showcase. We also have had some productive lab meetings with a new format where each person brings one slide of data or experiment planning to get feedback on. A little glimpse into our computational lab! <strong>Ruth Wright<\/strong> and <strong>Aylha Pferschy<\/strong> passed their comprehensive exams for PhD and MSc programs, respectively, so big congrats to them for progressing in their degree programs. Finally, we have lots of abstract writing and paper writing going on, so we are excited to share more of our work with the community soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"377\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7733-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman giving a talk in front of a powerpoint screen on endohyphal bacteria and with many seated students looking on\" class=\"wp-image-377 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7733-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7733-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7733-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7733-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7733.jpeg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of four women clustered about a table looking up at a monitor with scientific-looking pictures on it of genome analyses\" class=\"wp-image-378 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;width:470px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/carterlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2025\/03\/IMG_7753.jpeg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in the midst of a busy spring semester and it is a little quiet now over spring break. 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