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Milkweeds, Monarchs and Backyard Native Gardens!

In the last year, we were lucky to work on a mini informational documentary on our monarch research! The general visibility and love for monarch butterflies provides an incredible opportunity for us to reach the general public about conservation and ecological research. This short film highlights the fact that there are many species of milkweed…

2021-2022 updates 🙂

It has been a while since I have posted a lab update! We have had a busy, productive and beautiful year together since last spring. Covid restrictions lessened last spring and summer which allowed us to grow our team and finally get to work on our research! We had two amazing undergraduate researchers join us…

Welcome Jorge!

With the new year, we welcome Jorge Jaramillo to the lab! Jorge came to State College from Columbia in early January to begin his PhD in the Department – just in time for A LOT of winter weather!!!! We are so excited to learn with Jorge as he explores ways to use chemical ecology to…

Women in Ecology and Evolution Podcast!

I was recently featured on an awesome new podcast, spearheaded by a FANTASTIC woman in science (and friend!!!) Dr. Kirsty MacLeod. Kirsty and I met when she was a post-doc at Penn State between 2016-2018. She is an amazing scientist, science communicator and STEMinist. Our research interests in the ecology of stress and maternal effects…