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Meet the Lab!

Here's our dynamic team of knowledge conjurers, each adding their unique spark to illuminate our path to understanding insect-microbe interactions!

Major collaborators
(outside NCSU)

  • Mavis Acheampong (University of Ghana)

  • Aaron Ashbrook (Louisiana State University)

  • Eric Benbow (Michigan State University)

  • Cristian Beza-Beza (University of Minnesota)

  • Eli Hornstein (Elysia Creative Biology)

  • Larry Jiménez-Ferbans (University of Magdalena)

  • Christine Nalepa (North Carolina State University)

  • Gaku Tokuda (University of the Ryukyus)

  • Lauren Weidner (Arizona State University)

  • Matt Wilkins (Galactic Polymath)

Lab Alumni (and their last known whereabouts)

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Dr. Mavis Acheampong

USDA-FAS Exchange fellow (March 2023 - May 2024); Lecturer, University of Ghana's Department of Crop Science

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Clara Tyson

Undergraduate researcher (March 2023 - May 2024)

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Autumn Sylvestri

BeeMORE mentee (May 2023 - July 2023); Undergraduate researcher (August 2023 - May 2024)

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Marissa Cole

Undergraduate researcher (September 2019 - December 2019); Graduate research assistant (January 2020 - November 2023)

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Sydney Baker

BeeMORE mentee (May 2023 - July 2023)

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​Dr. Cristian Beza-Beza (President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota)

Postdoc (September 2021 - September 2023)

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Melbert Schwarz (Postdoc, Meiklejohn lab)

Graduate research assistant (August 2018 - August 2023)

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Ezra Bailey (Graduate student, Wiegmann lab)

Undergraduate researcher (February 2020 - August 2021); Graduate research assistant (August 2021 - April 2023)

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Elizabeth Wiles (Graduate student, Genetics and Genomics Scholars program)

BeeMORE mentee (May 2021 - July 2021); Undergraduate researcher (August 2021 - August 2022); Rotation student, GGS program (August 2022 - January 2023)

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Maeve Finley

BeeMORE mentee (May 2022 - July 2022)

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Estefany Valdez

BeeMORE mentee (May 2022 - July 2022)

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Dr. Aaron Ashbrook (Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University)

Postdoc (June 2020 - April 2022)

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Rebecca Lessler (M.Sc. student, Sobotnik lab)

Undergraduate researcher (June 2021 - June 2022)

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Sophia Copeman (Graduate student, Frank lab)

Undergraduate researcher (February 2020 - February 2021)

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Caroline Elliotte

Undergraduate researcher (Nov 2018 - Nov 2019)

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Former members

Jobs
 

Currently, there are no funded opportunities in the Mikaelyan lab for postdocs or graduate students. Jobs will be posted on the website when available. However, we are always eager to working on collaborative proposals for fellowships for independent research, such as postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, NSF-GRFP, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) 


We are always looking for hard working undergraduate students who are interested in either assisting graduate students or postdocs with their research. There are also opportunities for students interested in gaining experience in independent research. Feel free to contact Dr. Mikaelyan directly for inquiries.

Open positions
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