Maggie Defended her PhD!

Maggie Doolin defended her PhD on October 6, 2023. Her defense talk, “Reduced microbial diversity impacts microbiome stability, host physiology, and parasite fitness,” focused on one of her dissertation chapters, in which she helped design a lineage of gnotobiotic mice with a phylogenetically diversity low richness bacterial community as a model for a low diversity gut microbiome. Her defense was a success! She’ll be sticking around the lab for another semester to work on a project studying the gut microbiome and parasite loads of herbivorous lizards on the island of Bonaire and the co-teach Mammalogy with Dylan in the spring. Go Maggie!!

Maggie proudly displaying a tapeworm costume (made by Sara) after successfully defending her Phd.

Afterparty with family and friends hosted by Denise.

Is it really a party without cake?