Photos

Click here for photos we’ve taken of Plantago in a variety of habitats.

Members of the Penczykowski Lab pose for a group photo in front of a waterfall at the St. Louis Zoo.

L-R: Philippa, Cheyenne, Mahal, Rachel, Quinn, and Carrie. Photo taken at the Microbes of Diverse Ecosystems – Research Happening in St. Louis (mDivE-STL) Symposium held at the St. Louis Zoo in October 2022.

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Young assistant waters Plantago in our experiment at Jackson Park Elementary.

Mahal, Philippa, Quinn, and Cheyenne at the UCity Growing Together Food Garden Network kick-off event on May 3, 2022. We led a plant-pathogen coevolution card game, provided information on pathogens and pests, and gave away some veggie seeds.
Mahal plays a plant-pathogen coevolution card game with a student at Brittany Woods Middle School during the UCity Growing Together kick-off event.

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Members of the lab represented different Hogwarts houses at the Wizarding Run 5k in Forest Park (Nov. 2019).

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Graduating seniors Emma Waltman (L) and Rachel Fan (R) label specimen tubes as we collect leaf samples for analysis of nutrient stoichiometry (April 2019).

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Ako Sarfo (L) aims her throwing star as Austin Chen (R) looks on from safety.

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Austin lands a bullseye!

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We went axe throwing together at the start in early spring 2019. L-R: Elly Grant, Emma Waltman, and Rhiannon Vargas.

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Freshman Imani Jones sorting seeds to use in her project (Fall 2019).

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Imani’s Plantago rugelii seedlings.

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Imani’s Plantago lanceolata seedlings.

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Summer 2018: Austin and Carrie (in lab coats) work at the bench while Sheena (L) and Sabrina (R) proofread field data.

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Summer 2018: Field trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium. In this photo, we are nonchalantly looking at a plant specimen collected by Charles Darwin. L-R: Sabrina Talir, Rhiannon Vargas, Sheena Stevens, Arjun Puri, Austin Chen, and Mary Merello.