Danny Newman

At long last, after working out a few final kinks in our specimen database, a box containing 294 tissue samples, suspended in buffer-filled tubes, was sent off for sequencing. All 294 will be sequ...

At 11:59:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, January 29th 2018, this campaign came to a triumphant close. We raised $5008 (before fees), with over $1000 of additional donations made outside the campaign ...

Two days ago, I took a select 16 specimens down to the UO Microanalytical Facility for ten cumulative hours of relentless, high-energy bombardment inside a scanning electron microscope. Having onl...

Well folks, there's simply no precedent for the topic of our latest lab note. At the whim of the eccentric sportscaster, NBA legend, and Oregonophile, Bill Walton, the Roy Lab was invited to be th...

The press continues to roll in with the publication of this article in local University of Oregon rag, "The Emerald," which highlighted Roo as a scientist of note in its print and online editions t...

As we pass the halfway mark in our campaign, we wanted to go outside the lab for a moment to share the special and spontaneous convergence of five people in Eugene yesterday evening, all of whom ha...

With the primary goal of $4,000 now complete, we are looking ahead to what further work can be done with additional funding. The natural next step is to consider which collections would most benef...

At 6:47PM Pacific Standard Time, on January 9th 2018, this project was fully funded. 61 backers gave an average of $66 dollars each in a third of the time needed for this campaign to be a success. ...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/ecuadorian-fungi/Today we were featured on the excellent art and design blog, Colossal, a long-time favorite of both mine and Roo's. We reached out to its fou...

This is where all the microscope magic is happening, courtesy of the University of Oregon's Cresko Lab. The actual microscopy lab is under construction, so the fish people have been kind enough to...

Little White BlobsSome fungi are simply too difficult to identify by the naked eye. One such group of fungi form what I have come to affectionately refer to as the "Little White Blobs." A collect...

Here lie the sum total of our 2014 collections, ready for the scoping and sequencing!