Current Lab Members

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Sophie Bouvaine

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: sb622@cornell.edu

Phone: 607-272-1738

I am a postdoc working on aphids and sterol nutrition. I am interested in defining, among the diversity of phytosterol, which ones are good and bad...

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John Chaston

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: chaston@cornell.edu

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I am interested in understanding how hosts interact with their microbial partners at the molecular level, including mechanisms of partner recogniti...

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Mike Garvey

Honors Project Student

Email: mag336@cornell.edu

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I am an undergraduate student in the Entomology Department who joined the Douglas lab in August 2011. I am interested in disease ecology, inverte...

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Xiangfeng Jing

Postdoctoral Researcher

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I am interested in insect nutrition and its role in insect-plant interactions.  My current research, funded by AFRI, focuses on sugar utiliz...

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Peter Newell

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: pdn32@cornell.edu

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I study how bacteria and animals initiate and maintain symbiotic interactions. I’m currently investigating the association between Droso...

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Calum Russell

PhD Student

Email: cwr7@cornell.edu

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I am a graduate student in the Entomology department. I am broadly interested in host-microbial interactions of the endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicol...

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Dave Sannino

Graduate Rotation Student

Email: drs357@cornell.edu

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I am a graduate student in the Field of Microbiology with a broad interest in metazoan-prokaryote symbiosis. I am particularly interested in studyi...

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Stephanie Westmiller

Lab Manager

Email: st342@cornell.edu

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I am the lab manager which means I get to whip everyone into shape as well as help out with their projects, not to mention some of my own experimen...

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Adam Wong

PhD Student

Email: cw442@cornell.edu

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With undergraduate training in Molecular Cell Biology and master in Pathology, my current research focus on the role of gut microbiota in sustain...