2/10/18 – MD SeaGrant project on zooplankton metabarcoding funded!

New project for the Plough and Pierson labs! Our proposal ‘Novel Genomic Tools to Assess Fish Diet and Prey Quality in the Choptank River’ was recently funded by MD SeaGrant along with a 2 year fellowship position! Very exciting. Plough lab part-time laboratory technician extraordinare Catherine Fitzgerald will be joining the lab as a masters student. Welcome to Catherine (though she has already been around for a while in many HPL labs!)