Carly Sharp was one of the members of UGA’s 2023 Entomology Games Team.
News from WSU (2010-2019)
Welcome to Mike Crossley, who has just joined the lab as a postdoc. Mike completed his PhD with Sean Schoville at the University of Wisconsin, and at UGA he will examine the evolutionary ecology of formerly-benign herbivores that suddenly emerge as crop pests.
Congratulations to Amanda Meier and Olivia Smith, who received prestigious USDA-NIFA Fellowships this spring!
Matt Jones’s recent paper on the ecology of food safety, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, was named Editor’s Choice article and received widespread popular-press attention including an article in The Economist magazine.
Clemson did a nice news release describing Carmen Blubaugh‘s new Ecology paper.
Welcome to Amanda Meier, who accepted a postdoc position in the lab. Amanda completed her PhD with Mark Hunter at the University of Michigan, and at UGA she will continue her work linking soil and plant health.
Postdoc Carmen Blubaugh has started a faculty position in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Clemson. Congrats Carmen! You can read about her new lab here.
PhD student Olivia Smith has published a series of outreach articles discussing the varied roles of wild birds on organic farms.
Undergrad researcher Elizabeth Magillstars in this video describing her experiences as a woman in STEM, in honor of International Women’s Day.
Congratulations to PhD student Jessa Thurman, who received ARCS and Fulbright Fellowships! Jessa is spending her Fulbright year studying biological control in Australia.
Bill co-led a “how to get your paper published and cited” workshop at the Oikos Meeting in Denmark, and one of the graduate students that participated wrote a nice description of what we discussed.
Congratulations to undergraduate researchers Elizabeth Magill and Sabrina Judson, who shared first place at the 2017 BIOAg poster competition. Carmen Blubaugh mentored poster prep.
Joseph Taylor‘s predator ecology work was featured in the Seattle Times. Changing the world, one beetle at a time!
Snyder lab members sorting insects for a project.
Bill with some former Snyder lab members.
Bill inspecting a plant. Important work.
Congratulations to postdoc Carmen Blubaugh and PhD student Matt Jones, who received prestigious USDA-NIFA Fellowships. Carmen will examine how soil characteristics impact plants’ ability to attract beneficial predators, while Matt is studying natural means to lower human-pathogen contamination of fresh produce.
