Bonanza of spring student presentations
This was a big week for student presentations from our lab. On Wednesday, Will presented in the EBIO Brown Bag series, and his talk was entitled "Automating Phenotypic Trait Extraction". In it, he described the machine learning pipeline he has created for extracting phenotypic information from herbarium specimens as part of Rob and Julienne's NEON project. Hannah (above left) has also been collaborating on this project, and she gave a talk about phylogenetic structure in Harvard Forest in the Biological Sciences Initiative Symposium on Friday. Finally, Lexi (below left) presented a poster at the annual Student Research Spring Symposium, organized by a great team of EBIO graduate students. Lexi's poster, detailing the results of her crossing experiments in Physalis (carried out under Chelsea's mentorship), was selected for the outstanding undergraduate poster award! Congratulations to Will, Hannah, and Lexi, on your scientific accomplishments!