Lab Photos May 2021: Virtually celebrating our first PhD candidate, Blake Downing! February 2021: Research in the Time of COVID-19. (L: Dinesh Gupta and R: Blake Downing) January 2021: Lab Group Photo. (L-R) Grayson Chadwick, Blake Downing, Dipti Nayak, Dinesh Gupta, Victoria Innocent. The Kluyvers The Kluyvers The Kluyvers Our three fabulous postdocs: Gray, Dinesh, and Fernando. The lab looks for the perfect spot to collect mud on Winogradsky column day. Katie and Alienor collect water from the San Francisco Bay to use in our Winogradsky columns. Alienor scoops some mud. Katie and Dinesh add some iron oxidizing microbes to the mud bucket. Dinesh and Blake strategize about the next scooping site. Sophia collects some microbial mats. The site where we collected our microbes for Winogradsky columns in 2021. Dinesh carries our mud collection back to campus. Dinesh adds some diatomaceous earth to his Winogradsky column mixture. The final mixture of mud, diatomaceous earth, and nutrient sources is added to a bottle with a funnel. January 2021. Lab Group Photo. (L-R) Grayson Chadwick, Blake Downing, Dipti Nayak, Dinesh Gupta, Victoria Innocent. February 2021. Research in the Time of COVID-19. (L: Dinesh Gupta and R: Blake Downing) Totoro & Oona – the lab mascots. © Nayak Lab 2021.All rights reserved.