We’ve had three new folks join the lab since this summer (yes, we are once again behind on welcoming new folks!):
Michelle Fearon: We are very excited that Michelle joined our lab as a postdoc this summer! Michelle is well known to us, as she did her PhD with Liz Tibbetts and was a regular attendee at our lab meetings while she was a grad student. Michelle will be working on multihost-multiparasite interactions, and is especially interested in questions related to the effects of biodiversity on disease.
Libby Davenport: We are also very excited that Libby Davenport joined the PhD program & our lab this fall! Libby was an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina and did her undergraduate honors thesis with Jeff Dudycha, so she comes to us with lots of Daphnia experience! Libby recently presented the results of her undergraduate research at the Virtual Asilomar meeting in January, and is excited about getting into the lab this semester to start doing some work with parasites!
Marcin Dziuba: Our newest lab member is Marcin Dziuba, who just joined the lab as a postdoc in February. (We managed to welcome one person promptly, at least!) Marcin comes to us from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. His PhD work included studies of how Daphnia respond to increased water temperatures (recently published in L&O!), as well as work on Daphnia-parasite interactions. We are extremely impressed that Marcin somehow managed to accomplish everything that needed to be accomplished to move here in the middle of a pandemic, and are very excited to have him in the lab!
We’re hoping that we’ll all actually get to work together in person some time in the not-too-distant future!
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