We have four new members to welcome to the Sessions lab this fall: postdoc Elise Wilkes, and 1st-year geobiology students Makayla Betts, Elliot Mueller, and Shae Silvermann. This influx nearly doubles the size of our group, which is fabulous but also leaves me wondering if we will have enough hood space… You can see their smiling faces here. In August, we also bid farewell to Laurence Bird, a postdoc in the group over the past 18 months. Laurence has moved on to a position with the US Geologic Survey in Reston, VA.