Art of Science pollen banner on display at Midway Airport

Glenn, Luke, Surangi, Shiv, and the technicolor pollen banner at the Art of Science 2.0 exhibit at the Indi Go Gallery in April 2012.

The lab’s pollen images from a recent PLoS ONE paper has found another public venue.This time, the technicolor 10-foot banner of Croton hirtus, Mabea occidentalis, and Agropyron repens pollen grains will be on display in Concourse A at Chicago’s Midway Airport. The banner, which was part of the University of Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology’s (IGB) Art of Science 2.0 exhibition, is now part of a rotating exhibit of images from IGB that will be on display at Midway starting in late July.

UPDATE (8/20/13)

The display is now up in Concourse A. Read more about the exhibit here.

Pollen banner on display at Midway Airport, August 2013.

 

Derek Haselhorst heads to Panama

San Lorenzo Crane Feb 2008Derek – thanks in part to support from a Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Tinker grant – is back in Panama this month working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). He is visiting a long-time collaborator, J. Enrique Moreno, a STRI researcher at the Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology (CPTA). This is Derek’s second trip to STRI-CPTA. He is backĀ  working with the Alan Graham Tropical Pollen Reference Collection, curated by the lab group of STRI Staff Scientist Carlos Jaramillo. The Alan Graham Collection represents one of the largest modern reference collections of Neotropical pollen – with reference slides of over 25,000 species. Derek will be using the collection to help identify over 100 unknown pollen morphotypes from his counts of aerial pollen samples collected from Parque National San Lorenzo. Several hundred species of plants are potentially represented in the pollen rain of this high-diversity moist forest.