Summary of 2005/2006 Activities
Field Trip to Eagle Lake and Lassen with Dr Wolfe's Microbial Ecology Class (Sept)
NCASM Meeting in San Ramon (Oct)
Biochemistry and hands-on brewing (Oct)
Host speaker Dr Jonathan Trent (How to live in boiling sulfuric acid) (Oct)
Visit CSU Chico Forensic Lab (Oct)
Host biochemists Dr Clark and Dr Edwards (Nov)
Host Dr Lynn Rothschild NASA Ames, Astrobiology (Dec)
Trip to Berkeley Microbiology Symposium (April)
UC Davis Picnic Day and Microbiology Graduate Program (April)
Host Dr Rebecca Parales (Degradation of Nitroaromatics)
 
Summary of 2004/2005 Activities
Guest Speaker: Traci Baptista (Public Health Microbiologist) (Sept)
Host seminar speaker: Dr Scott Dawson, UCB - (October)
Northern California ASM meeting in San Ramon - (October)
Set up educational display for Minds in Motion - (April)
Host seminar speaker: Dr Ken Stedmann, Portland State Univ (Viruses from Hell) - (April)
Field trip to Enloe Hospital Microbiology Lab - (April)

Photos from hosting Dr. Jonathan Trent, NASA Ames, Bioengineering Branch (October 14, 2005)

We hosted Dr Trent following his Biology Department Seminar, "How to live in boiling sulfuric acid". Dr Trent has been involved in many very interesting research projects during his career from studying open ocean distributions of microorganisms to thermophilic chaperone proteins to nanotechnology. We were fortunate to host Dr Trent and his wife Susanne for a potluck dinner following his seminar. For more information about Dr Trent: Click here. To see an artistic side of Dr Trent, check out his photogallery of marine microorganisms: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~cycloid/archives/trent.gst/trenttx.htm

Photos from our September 18 field trip to hotsprings at Lassen National Park

Dr Wolfe's Microbial Ecology class and the Micro Club keeping a safe distance from one of the fumeroles next to Boiling Springs Lake.

Microbial Ecology students looking over one of the hot springs at Devil's Kitchen. The group analyzed temperatures and pH and collected samples for later laboratory analysis. Some of the more extreme pots were above 75 C and had pH near 2.2.