Magda joined the Species from Feces team to save the world one poo pile at a time. It’s hard to believe how much information is in scat.
Rebecca is currently a senior at NAU, majoring in Biomedical sciences with a minor in Psychology. As an undergraduate research assistant, she studies pathogens such as Yersinia pestis (Yp), the causative agent of plague, and Francisella tularensis (Ft), which causes Tularemia.
Emma is a Research Technician working on rabies detection along with identifying species, diet and pathogens through feces of bats and other wildlife.
Anthony is an undergraduate student that worked on multiple projects while in the French Lab. He explored different treatments to the SARS-CoV-2 virus using cell culture, and analyzed the treatments across multiple different strains.
Emma is an undergraduate research assistant majoring in Biomedical Science and minoring in Psychology. Her research has focused on using genetics to monitor a threatened snake species and applying a new non-invasive method to identify rabies virus.
The USGS National Wildlife Health Center is the only federal science center dedicated to wildlife disease detection, control, and prevention in the United States.
Awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship, Dan is skilled in next-generation sequencing, microbiome bioinformatics, phylogenetics, ecological niche modeling, and bacterial and fungal microbiology.
Jessica is an undergraduate research assistant studying Biomedical Science with minors in Chemistry and Psychology. Her research focuses on Multiple-Locus VNTR Analysis of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that is the causative agent of plague.
Matthew is an Undergraduate Researcher studying Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry. His work focuses on maintaining the hACE2 mouse colony for the HCMMC. The hACE2 murine model advances the understanding of disease progression of COVID-19.
Noor is an Undergraduate research assistant studying Biomedical Science with a minor in Chemistry. Her research focuses on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of Burkholderia pseudomallei.