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And she gave a poster about her new study of Meloidoyne arenaria population structure! Well done Abbey!

Congratulations to Adianna Lockwood-Shabat for winning the College Council’s Minerva Award!

Congratulations to Abbey Ramirez on the Britt Travel Award and the EXPAND Travel Grant!

Congratulations to Erin Scott on the Britt Travel Award!

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.

Congratulations to Abbey Ramirez for passing her PhD qualifying exam!! Now you have even more time for your beloved nemaodes!

Big GRFP successes this week for the lab:

Irish Amundson was offered an NSF GRFP!!!! Lots of wins this month for Irish!

Juliana Jiranek received honorable mention!!!

Congratulations to you both for these major accomplishments

Congratulations to Irish Amundson for passing her PhD qualifying exam!!! Now it’s time to do all that exciting science you’ve been writing so much about.

Check out 1st year grad student Juliana’s new review paper in Philosophical Transactions!

“Mechanistic models to meet the challenge of climate change in plant–pathogen systems” with Ian Miller, Ruby An, Emme Bruns, and Jess Metcalf https://doi-org.proxy01.its.virginia.edu/10.1098/rstb.2022.0017

Juliana had her first first-author data paper accepted in Ecology and Evolution! She conducted this work when she was a technician in the lab, and her results show that the environment (diet in this case) can determine whether or not parasite resistance carries a cost.

Citation: Jiranek, J and Gibson, AK. Diet can alter the cost of resistance to a natural parasite in Caenorhabditis elegans. Ecology and Evolution. In press

Members of the lab had a great time at the American Society of Naturalists’ 2023 meeting at Asilomar! Congratulations to postdoc Caroline Amoroso for honorable mention for best postdoc award and for 2nd place in the natural history trivia with her team “The Rainbow Chitins.” Congratulations to undergraduate Tori Feist for honorable mention for best student poster, on her REU project with Corlett Wood this past summer (Tori was competing against graduate students!). And congratulations to Brodie Lab members Clara Stahlmann Roeder, Sarah McPeek, and Keely Pattisall on their awesome presentations!

Mandy earned an Outstanding Faculty Award (in the Rising Star category) from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia! The press release is here.