Former mentees

Helena Baffoe-Bonnie: 2017-2018, Emory University, honors thesis student (summa cum laude). She moved on to an NIH IRTA fellow at NIDA and then to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, a research-intensive medical training program at Case Western Reserve University.

Dilys Osei: 2018, Emory University, team member and NCAA National Champion in track and field. She moved on to obtain her M.D. at the Medical College of Georgia

Raythe Owens: 2018, Emory University, team member. Raythe subsequently became a Ph.D. student in Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Julie Lin: 2016-2017, Emory University, team member. She moved on to get her optometry degree at SUNY College of Optometry

Arooj Khalid: 2017-2018, Emory University, team member; Arooj taught elementary school with Teach for America and then applied to law school.

Kayla Stoy: 2012-2014; Indiana University, honors thesis student (recipient of Outstanding Honors Thesis Award). Kayla and I co-authored two publications together (Evolution 2015, JEB 2018), and she wrote a lay summary about our work for ScienceBreaker. Kayla was an NSF-GRFP graduate student with Nicole Gerardo and Levi Morran at Emory University doing great work on bacterial mutualists of insects, then a PRFB fellow in Will Ratcliffe’s lab at Georgia Tech. Now an assistant professor at Florida State! See her lab website here.