Jo Handelsman will speak at the Advancing Health and Environmental Science through Standardized Laboratory Microbial Ecosystems session with her talk "Dissecting Behavior in a Simple Microbial Community". Her co-presenters for the session include Rob Knight, UC-SC and Susannah Tringe, US Department of Energy.

Juan Bravo Juan Bravo departed the Handelsman Lab to begin his first year in the Biology of Aging PhD program at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. In recognition of his academic promise, he was awarded the Provost Fellowship and the Dean's Award for Excellence. Congratulations, Juan!