Lab Photos Lab members at Asilomar, October 2022 The final mixture of mud, diatomaceous earth, and nutrient sources is added to a bottle with a funnel. Dinesh adds some diatomaceous earth to his Winogradsky column mixture. Dinesh carries our mud collection back to campus. The site where we collected our microbes for Winogradsky columns in 2021. Sophia collects some microbial mats. Dinesh and Blake strategize about the next scooping site. Katie and Dinesh add some iron oxidizing microbes to the mud bucket. Alienor scoops some mud. Katie and Alienor collect water from the San Francisco Bay to use in our Winogradsky columns. The lab looks for the perfect spot to collect mud on Winogradsky column day. Our three fabulous postdocs: Gray, Dinesh, and Fernando. The Kluyvers The Kluyvers The Kluyvers 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) May 2021: Virtually celebrating our first PhD candidate, Blake Downing! Nayak lab graduate students Alienor, Gavin, Blake, and Sophia watch jellyfish at the aquarium. Photo by Dinesh Gupta. Lab members (L to R) Fernando, Blake, Alienor, Gavin, Sophie, Katie, and Dinesh at the MCB department retreat in November 2023, Aislomar, CA. Fernando presents his work on regulation of methanogenesis, using our lab’s internet-famous squirrel, Kluyver, as a metaphor. Lab members hang out with hot cocoa by the sea in Monterey, CA. November 2023. 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.