Rachel Welicky has been awarded a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and will join the Wood Lab as a WRF Fellow in January 2019! Rachel will use compound-specific stable isotope analysis of museum specimens from the UW Fish Collection to reconstruct long-term change in the trophic position of Puget Sound fishes. Her work will complement our ongoing UW Innovation Award-funded project to understand how rates of parasitism have changed over time for Puget Sound fishes. We’re looking forward to welcoming you in Seattle, Rachel!
Author: Chelsea Wood
Catrin Wendt presents at WACFWRU Student Symposium
Are fish processing plants reservoirs for infectious disease? MS student Catrin Wendt aims to find out! She summarized her thesis work in a stellar talk at this afternoon’s Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Student Symposium.
Heather Lopes receives Mary Gates Scholarship
Undergraduate capstone student Heather Lopes received a $3,000 scholarship from the Mary Gates Endowment for Students! Heather has been doing stellar work in our lab on polychaete parasites of Pacific oysters, and the scholarship will support her as she continues her studies at Friday Harbor Labs. Congrats, Heather!
Welcome to our new website!
Welcome to the Wood Lab’s new website. The “What’s New?” page is where you will find updates on the latest happenings around our lab. We think you’ll find our enthusiasm for parasites to be infectious 🙂