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Melbert Schwarz defends his PhD! 🎉
Melbert has crossed the finish line, successfully defending his thesis! 🎓🍾 Here's to your future, Melbot!🤖 We know it will be as...
Aram Mikaelyan
Jun 5, 20231 min read
Welcome Autumn and Sydney!
NCSU undergrads Autumn Sylvestri and Sydney Baker join the lab as BeeMORE REEU fellows! Autumn will be working on developing...
Aram Mikaelyan
May 29, 20231 min read
Mavis and Clara join the lab!
Mavis Acheampong and Clara Tyson join the lab! Mavis is a lecturer at the University of Ghana and a USDA-FAS visiting fellow in our lab!...
Aram Mikaelyan
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Beauveria paper!
We just published a collaborative study with the Schal lab on how Beauveria infects bedbugs and cockroaches: Ashbrook, A. R., Mikaelyan,...
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 26, 20221 min read


The power of poop!
Marissa Cole publishes an awesome minireview in collaboration with Javier Ceja-Navarro on the role of the insect feces in the evolution...
Aram Mikaelyan
Oct 29, 20211 min read


Spooky comes to the M-lab!
Last evening, our knives tortured six pumpkins and gave them personalities!
Aram Mikaelyan
Oct 23, 20211 min read
Welcome, Cristian!
Cristian joins the Wiegmann and Mikaelyan labs as a postdoc on the NSF project to study the evolution of blowflies!
Aram Mikaelyan
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Ezra metamorphoses into a grad student!
Ezra (re)joins the lab as a grad student to work on blowfly evolution!
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 15, 20211 min read
UGPN funding secured!🎉
Together with Bethany Hoye (University of Wollongong,) Daniel Horton (University of Surrey,) Martina Anderson-Smith (University of...
Aram Mikaelyan
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Welcome, Becca!
Becca joins the M-lab as an research technician!
Aram Mikaelyan
Jun 15, 20211 min read
Welcome, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth joins the M-lab as a BeeMORE scholar!
Aram Mikaelyan
May 22, 20211 min read


Celebrating the holidays with the Mlabbers!🎄
All the Mlabbers and an uncomfortably large number of gnomes got together and exchanged holiday gifts! 🎄
Aram Mikaelyan
Dec 18, 20201 min read


Boo!
The lab celebrates Halloween👻🎃 by watching Beetlejuice over Zoom!😊
Aram Mikaelyan
Oct 30, 20201 min read
NSF dimensions grant to study blowfly evolution!
NSF funds our dimensions of biodiversity grant on blowfly evolution! 🎉Congratulations to Wolfpack 🐺members Brian Wiegmann, Kelly...
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 25, 20201 min read


First post-COVID photo of the lab (hoomans and pets!)
The new way to do group photos!
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 21, 20201 min read
Welcome, Aaron!
Aaron Ashbrook joins as a postdoc in the Mikaelyan and Schal labs! He will be working on the isolation and optimization of...
Aram Mikaelyan
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Lab shuts down
Lab shuts down and goes online due to COVID-19.
Aram Mikaelyan
Mar 13, 20201 min read
Welcome, Ezra and Sophia!
Ezra Bailey and Sophia Copeman join the lab as undergraduate technicians!
Aram Mikaelyan
Feb 25, 20201 min read
Marissa morphs into a Masters student!
Marissa Cole joins the ENT graduate program as a Masters student! 🎉😊 She will be researching cooperative behavior in termites!
Aram Mikaelyan
Jan 6, 20201 min read
Thanks OIST!
Aram gives a talk at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in the Ecology and Evolution of Termite Gut Microbesmeeting...
Aram Mikaelyan
Dec 4, 20191 min read
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