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Melbert Schwarz defends his PhD! ๐
Melbert has crossed the finish line, successfully defending his thesis! ๐๐พ Here's to your future, Melbot!๐ค We know it will be as...
Aram Mikaelyan
Jun 4, 20231 min read
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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 28, 20231 min read
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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 13, 20231 min read
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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 25, 20221 min read
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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 28, 20211 min read
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Spooky comes to the M-lab!
Last evening, our knives tortured six pumpkins and gave them personalities!
Aram Mikaelyan
Oct 23, 20211 min read
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Welcome, Cristian!
Cristian joins the Wiegmann and Mikaelyan labs as a postdoc on the NSF project to study the evolution of blowflies!
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 31, 20211 min read
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Ezra metamorphoses into a grad student!
Ezra (re)joins the lab as a grad student to work on blowfly evolution!
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 14, 20211 min read
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UGPN funding secured!๐
Together with Bethany Hoye (University of Wollongong,) Daniel Horton (University of Surrey,) Martina Anderson-Smith (University of...
Aram Mikaelyan
Jul 22, 20211 min read
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Welcome, Becca!
Becca joins the M-lab as an research technician!
Aram Mikaelyan
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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Welcome, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth joins the M-lab as a BeeMORE scholar!
Aram Mikaelyan
May 21, 20211 min read
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Celebrating the holidays with the Mlabbers!๐
All the Mlabbers and an uncomfortably large number of gnomes got together and exchanged holiday gifts! ๐
Aram Mikaelyan
Dec 18, 20201 min read
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Boo!
The lab celebrates Halloween๐ป๐ by watching Beetlejuice over Zoom!๐
Aram Mikaelyan
Oct 30, 20201 min read
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NSF dimensions grant to study blowfly evolution!
NSF funds our dimensions of biodiversity grant on blowfly evolution! ๐Congratulations to Wolfpack ๐บmembers Brian Wiegmann, Kelly...
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 25, 20201 min read
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First post-COVID photo of the lab (hoomans and pets!)
The new way to do group photos!
Aram Mikaelyan
Aug 21, 20201 min read
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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
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Lab shuts down
Lab shuts down and goes online due to COVID-19.
Aram Mikaelyan
Mar 13, 20201 min read
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Welcome, Ezra and Sophia!
Ezra Bailey and Sophia Copeman join the lab as undergraduate technicians!
Aram Mikaelyan
Feb 25, 20201 min read
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Marissa morphs into a Masters student!
Marissa Cole joins the ENT graduate program as a Masters student! ๐๐ She will be researching cooperative behavior in termites!
Aram Mikaelyan
Jan 6, 20201 min read
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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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