Hello!

My name is Andrew Krohn and this is my first day as the Research Technician for Northern Arizona University (NAU) Environmental Genetics and Genomics Laboratory (EnGGen). I am taking over this position from the tireless Tamara Max who has moved on to an enviable position with Paul Hohenlohe ( http://webpages.uidaho.edu/hohenlohe/index.html). I am initiating this blog so that I can quickly post about topics of interest to the research community at NAU and elsewhere. I hope to include experiences, molecular biology tips and tricks, cost-saving measures, and other lab-related information.

I am in the 3rd year of my PhD here at NAU. My research focuses on pinyon pines and associated soil microbial communities. Recently I have developed a set of microsatellite markers for use in pinyon pines (publication pending soon). For soil microbial analysis I use tRFLPs to screen samples in volume and next-generation sequencing for more thorough analyses. I work primarily with DNA and perform a lot of PCR.

As a first step, I have updated the contact info at the EnGGen website and corrected the link to the EnGGen webcalendar wherever I found it broken.

EnGGen website: http://www.enggen.nau.edu/index.html

EnGGen contact info: http://www.enggen.nau.edu/staff.html

Additionally, I try to maintain a professional website for myself here: http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~alk224/AKrohn/index.htm