Former postdoc Lynn Griffin will be facilitating an initiative at UC Santa Barbara to help advanced students assist students taking introductory biology.
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welcome postdoc, Erika Diaz-Almeyda
Welcome to Erika, a new FIRST postdoctoral fellow in our lab. Erika joins the lab with a background in symbiosis, having working on coral-algal symbioses in the lab of Monica Medina. She is particularly interested in how environmental context influences symbioses, and has done work on host and symbiont fitness.
congrats, grads
Greg wins Stokes award
Ph.D. candidate Erica
Erica Harris successfully passed her qualifying exam for her Ph.D. candidacy. She will be developing her research on the monarch butterfly microbiome and its role in disease. This is a collaborative project between our lab and the lab of Jaap de Roode.
undergrad research symposium
The Gerardo lab had a strong representation at the recent Emory Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congrats to Becky, Meera, Brandon and Itai for their efforts.
sean carroll, the story teller and evolutionary biologist
in the news
Work on aphid-symbiont-ladybird beetle interactions by former postdoc Jen Kovacs (now at Spelman College) and former undergrad Kelly Costopoulos (now attending medical school) was featured in Entomology Today.