Louis Bubrig was awarded an EXPAND Fellowship, a one-year fellowship through UVA’s NSF Research Traineeship program that aims to break down disciplinary and career silos! In addition to his proposed dissertation work to study parasites as a driver of dispersal evolution, he’ll be collaborating with Eyleen O’Rourke’s lab to test mechanistic hypotheses on how parasites interact with their hosts during the metabolically taxing process of dispersal.