News
July 2026 — Registration is still open for CGUE 2026, the Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes meeting, in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, this October. Laura is a co-organizer, along with Courtney Stairs.
June 2026 — Laura gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes in Castelldefels, on epigenetic plasticity in early-branching marine protists.
May 2026 — Laura returned to the faculty of the MBL Workshop on Molecular Evolution in Woods Hole, teaching the session on phylogenomics of deep divergences.
January 2026 — Julia Frost joined the lab as graduate student!
November 2025 — Our contribution to the position of the root of the eukaryotic tree of life appeared in Nature.