23 Nov 2022 — Congratulations David on the first chapter of your Ph.D. thesis appearing today in Current Biology! So much work behind this!

11 Nov 2022 — A couple of us have already moved over to Mastodon! Find Toby on Mastodon @tobyspribille@fediscience.org and David at @ddiazescandon@mas.to. Some science news coming there soon.

22 July 2022 — Congratulations Gul’ya on a brilliant Ph.D. defense and on being the recipient of the Doctoral Sword of Symbiosis and Evolution! You did us all proud!

01 June 2022 — And together with Justine Karst, Stephen Strelkov and Daniel Charlebois, we’re off to hosting the 3rd Annual Canadian Fungal Network meeting CanFunNet 2022!
30 May 2022 — Thanks to UAlberta Folio for this nice write-up on our recent NComms paper

24 May 2022 — Fun to go on CBC Edmonton AM today to try to cram lichen symbiosis, genomes and sugar subsidies into a 6-minute talk segment! Thanks Mark Connolly for having me on!
12 May 2022 — Lichen fungi have far more predicted enzymes to act on complex carbohydrates than was previously thought! Thrilled to share our new paper in Nature Communications with Philipp Resl out today.
28 Apr 2022 — Our New Phyto article is out in the print version and it made the cover!

18 Mar 2022 — Our Tansley Review on lichen evolutionary biology together with Daniel Stanton from University of Minnesota is out now in New Phytologist.
14 May 2021 — Congratulations Spencer on your job at UBC, it’s been great having you here! End of an era!
17 Mar 2021 — Gulya’s second paper in two weeks is out as a preprint in BioRxiv!
12 Mar 2021 — Congratulations Samantha on being awarded an NSERC USRA! Woohoo!
9 Mar 2021 — Gulya’s analysis of basidiomycete yeast genomes in the Alectoria lichen symbiosis is now out in GBE!
11 Jan 2021 — Welcome to the lab Alejandro Huereca Delgado!
14 Jul 2020 — Thanks Sabrina Imbler for covering our caribou rebuttal in The Atlantic
14 Jul 2020 — Thanks Leyland Cecco for your story on our caribou rebuttal in The Guardian
14 Jul 2020 — Our paper on Deep-Snow caribou is now out in Biodiversity and Conservation
09 Jul 2020 — Congratulatons Spencer on your successful M.Sc. defense!
11 May 2020 — Our paper on the diversity of lichens of Glacier Bay, Alaska is now out as a special issue of The Lichenologist
16 Apr 2020 — Congratulations Carmen on being awarded an NSERC PGS–D for three years!
15 Apr 2020 — Congratulations Spencer on receiving a 2020 FGSR Graduate Student Teaching Award! Read an interview with Spencer here.
2 Apr 2020 — Congratulations Gulya on getting a two-year Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship!
10 Feb 2020 — Our review article on lichen polysaccharides is now out in FEMS Microbiology Letters
25 Jan 2020 — Congratulations David on getting a Minciencias grant!
06–20 Jan 2020 — Welcome Alejandro Huereca Delgado from Universidad Autónomo de Nuevo León to work on Xylographa and experience the chilly Edmonton winter
06 Dec 2019 — Congratulations Spencer on your UAGF Fellowship!
06 Dec 2019 — Congrats to Gulnara and Carmen on receiving AGES Scholarships!
4–17 June 2019 — Welcome to Irina Stepanchikova from St. Petersburg who is in town / western Canada to work on the genus Micarea!
17 Jan 2019 — Thanks Ed Yong for featuring Veera’s work on Tremella in lichens in The Atlantic
17 Jan 2019 — Veera’s paper on Tremella fungi in wolf lichens is now published in Current Biology
17 Oct 2018 — Our paper on the evolution of substrate associations in crust lichens is now out in Proceedings B
11–16 October 2018 — A big welcome to Klara Schnarnagl stopping by to give a talk and install a plot for her gigantic latitudinal lichen transect
7 Sept – 8 Nov 2018 — Hosted Antoine Simon (University of Liège)
19-23 Aug 2018 — Hosted Yngvar Gauslaa (Norwegian Agricultural University) to discuss lichen physiology at field sites in central Alberta
25 Jun—6 Jul 2018 — Gulya and Spencer took part in the Tombstone Territorial Park Bioblitz in the Yukon
1-15 Jul 2018 — Hosted Göran Thor (SLU, Sweden) for field work on lichens in the central Canadian boreal forest
11-13 Apr 2018 — Christopher Ellis (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh) visited the lab and gave a talk titled “From Bioclimatic Models to Biology: a Tour of Climate Change Risk”
26 Feb 2018 — Congratulations to Spencer on getting a Dean’s Excellence Recruitment Scholarship Award and a Biodiversity grant from Alberta Conservation Association!
03 July 2017 — The Spribille Lab is online!