{"id":27,"date":"2019-07-23T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/agroecology\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:47:30","slug":"undergrads","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/agroecology\/meet-the-lab-group\/undergrads\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergrads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Phoebe Boudreaux (Microbiology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phoebe is exploring what on-farm factors can increases Salmonella <\/em>prevalence in chicken feces.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Undergrad Alumni<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Avery Ryan (Entomology)<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avery assisted Carly with her on-farm experiments with manipulating fertilizer impacts on yellow squash insect communities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jake Wasdin (Entomology)<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake assisted with the whitefly project, including field collection, greenhouse set-up, and insect classification.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ethan Salter<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (Biology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethan helped Priscilla with her research on pollinator diversity on blueberry farms. He also assisted with the whitefly project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Madison Caren<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (Ecology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madison assisted Carly in her research on the UGA Horticulture Farm by maintaining her zucchini plot and collecting data for the project. Madison was interested in promoting sustainable agriculture and exploring relationships between soil nutrients and production. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sabrina Judson<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (Mathematics)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabrina was interested in insect ecology and contributed to our project looking at natural pest control on west-coast organic farms. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Magill<\/strong><\/strong> (Zoology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth investigated the chemical ecology of host location by parasitoid wasps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carolina Ruiz<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (Biology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolina helped with our genomics work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Abbie Estep<\/strong> (Zoology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbie helped us sort insect community samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacob Gable<\/strong><\/strong> (Wildlife)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake worked on several different predator-pathogen biodiversity projects, and published his undergraduate research in the journal Ecology<\/em>. He now is pursuing his PhD at Harvard. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kerri Wheeler (Environmental Science)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerri examined the relationship between insect-pathogen biodiversity and host mortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margaret Schoenfeld<\/strong> (Biology)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret examined the relationship between insect-pathogen richness, evenness and abundance and host mortality, working with (then) postdoc Dave Crowder.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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