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PopBio 2019 Group Photo 
PopBio 2019 REU Group Photo
PopBio 2021 Group Photo. 
Group photo at the CDC! 
Group photo at the CDC! 
Huge thanks to everyone who made the program happen this year. (Art by Lily)
Marshmallow challenge
Mosquito ladies, Courtney & Taryn 
Hiking
More R workshops
Pizza Party!!! 
Whooping cough has something coming for it! It’s the new generation of scientists like Callie.
Amber’s beautiful lab setup! 
Chastity collecting data on Monarch butterflies. 
More mosquitoes! 
Taryn, to skip or not to skip, that is the question.
Opening Kick-off BBQ
REU Program Kick-off BBQ 
Poster session of all REU programs
Kickoff BBQ
Wei-En presenting his poster at the Ecology Poster Session.
Poster session at Ecology
Felicia measuring the heart beat of Bess beetles!
Journal club
Catching Monarch butterflies!
Katie presenting her poster. 
Ashley doing some semi-fieldwork with Monarch butterflies. 
Drs. Barriga, Hall & Altizer (left to right) and Chastity are very excited about Chastity’s work this summer! 
Jahsarah Measuring the water quality of the stream
Alyssa using a backpack aspirator to collect wild mosquitoes. 
Jahsarah presenting her poster at the Ecology Poster Session! 
Maya holding a Monarch caterpillar
Jillian in the lab.
Maya and monarchs… things got heated.
Mosquito ladies: Taryn & Courtney in their field enclosure!
Non-academic panel discussion
Looking for Bess beetles!
Lutchie can show how to get Daphnia heart rate
Who infected you? asks JJ
Kareena is a drosophila expert
Clara talks mosquitoes…
Closing luncheon
Courtney says crowding mosquito larvae makes tiny biters.
Monarch mating cages! 
Zane explains the complexity of flu data.
Poster workshop
Lily Tanner
More R Workshops
Marshmallow challenge
REU participants presenting their research at the Poster Symposium. 
Marshmallow challenge
Jahsarah measuring the stream’s water quality. 
Field Trip!!
No one can tell you more about genomics of symbionts than Michael!
Alyssa is trying to see what proportion of local mosquitoes fed on sugar! 
Bake sale (photo taken by Simran)
Maya & Dr. Altizer in the lab.
All REU Poster Symposium 2021
At the Georgia Aquarium! 
Math is fun!!!! 
Izzy inoculating milkweed leaves with Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) parasite!
Leaf sampling
All smiles over this corner of the poster symposium! 
Dinner making at AAHS
Jillian, bacteria, and mosquitoes
