Welcome to the Burke lab!
How can microbes engage in relationships with animals without causing disease? Our lab studies symbiotic relationships between microbes and animals, and uses functional and evolutionary genetics and genomics to examine how these kinds of relationships can occur and are maintained. In particular, we study the fascinating beneficial viruses that are harbored by parasitic wasps.
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Live from the Lab with Gaelen Burke,
a College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences video interview:
Live from the Lab with Gaelen Burke
Entomologist Gaelen Burke discusses her research about viruses in parasitoid wasps and what we can learn from it. Read more about her lab at https://site.caes.uga.edu/burkelab/.
Posted by UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences on Friday, February 23, 2018
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A wasp (species Microplitis demolitor) parasitizing a soybean looper caterpillar. Photo credit: Jena Johnson.