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