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SFSU Summer Research Symposium 2024
EIGHT MEEP Lab undergraduate researchers and summer interns presented their work at the 2024 SFSU Summer Symposium!
Jul 3, 2024 1 min read
SFSU Summer Research Symposium 2024
Willow joined the lab!
Welcome Willow Larsen to the lab! Round of applause! Willow is interested in hypolithic mosses and is already scouring sites around the Bay Area to find a local population. She is also coming around to lichens!
Jun 15, 2024 1 min read
Kat joined the lab!
Welcome Kat McCullough to the lab! Round of applause! Kat, a fabulous fungi-fanatic, is meeting us in the middle and studying photosynthetic fungi… AKA lichen! ;) She is working to understand the ecology of epiphytic lichens on coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) on San Bruno Mountain.
Jun 12, 2024 1 min read
Kat joined the lab!
College of Science and Engineering Student Project Showcase 2024
Ashley won 3rd place in the Environment category of the SFSU College of Science and Engineering 2024 Student Project Showcase!
May 3, 2024 1 min read
College of Science and Engineering Student Project Showcase 2024
Ashley joined the lab!
Welcome Ashley Meinke to the lab! Round of applause! Ashley is working on data analysis, ranging from network analyses of metabolites involved in stress tolerance, to linear modeling physiology metrics, to phylogenetic modeling the evolution of stress tolerance—all in Syntrichia!
Jan 29, 2024 1 min read
Ashley joined the lab!
Conference rendezvous at BOTANY 2023

This year the Botanical Society of America annual meeting, BOTANY, was held in Boise, Idaho, where I actually currently live!

Aug 1, 2023 1 min read
Conference rendezvous at BOTANY 2023
Field work in SW Utah

The Rothfels and Rushworth Labs headed to SW Utah for 10 days of fieldwork in the deserts and the mountains.

May 29, 2023 1 min read
Field work in SW Utah
Introducing the MEEP Lab at San Francisco State University!

The MEEP Lab will officially open it’s doors at SF State in January of 2024!

Jan 29, 2023 1 min read
Introducing the MEEP Lab at San Francisco State University!
BOTANY 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska
I traveled to Anchorage, Alaska for BOTANY 2022.
Jul 26, 2022 1 min read
BOTANY 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska
A trip to Washington, D.C.
I traveled to D.C. for the Smithsonian Botanical Symposium and to work in-person with Rebecca and the Data Science Lab.
May 30, 2022 1 min read
A trip to Washington, D.C.