Cassie has also been a terrific mentor to undergraduate and graduate students in the the lab and has lead multiple collaborative projects that achieved new findings but also helped teach students about metagenome pipelines and interpretation. She was a primary mentor for #NSURP and #RISE students the past two summers which have lead to two preprinted manuscripts.

Preprint on viral discovery from #endolithic #metagenomes Highly diverse & unknown #viruses may enhance #Antarctic endoliths' adaptability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.02.518905v1 🪨🦠🧬🇦🇶 lead by @casettron@twitter.com @ClaudiaColeine@twitter.com with @LauraSelbmann@twitter.com @ManuDelBaq@twitter.com and #JGI team @sgtringe@twitter.com @simroux_virus@twitter.com & #NSURP 2022 undergraduate @NSURPorg@twitter.com Morgan Saunders