April 2026: Delaney Long will be joining the lab as a new PhD student. Delaney is currently completing her MS degree at SUNY Oneonta (advisor: Florian Reyda). Welcome, Delaney!
April 2026: Former MS students Hailea Boggess (Buck lab) and Connor Brainard (Wilbur lab) published their work on the physiological impacts of Saccularina sp. on the bay scallop. Congrats, Hailea and Connor on your pub in Ecology and Evolution!
December 2025: Ally Johnston graduated with departmental honors and won the Biology Achievement Award from the department. Congrats, Ally!
November 2025: Ally Johnston presented her poster on snake eels as pseudoparasites at the UNCW fall showcase. Great job, Ally!
November 2025: Dr. Buck gave an invited seminar at College of Charleston. What a beautiful campus!
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July 2025: Jax Salguero, Grace Kokasko, Ally Johnston, and Julia Buck gave talks/posters at the American Society of Parasitologists conference in Winston-Salem. This was Grace's and Ally's first conference!
April 2025: Undergraduate student Ally Johnston was offered and has accepted a paid summer internship with the UNCW Marine Mammal Stranding Program. Congrats Ally!
February 2025: Dr. Buck gave an invited seminar at Utah State University and then played in the snow all weekend: snowshoeing near Bear Lake, cross country skiing near Logan (Dr. Buck's first time on skis!), and spectating a skijoring competition! Thanks so much to host/friend/collaborator/co-author Dr. Sara Weinstein for the invitation!
February 2025: Former honors student Sebrina Brooks will be starting a PhD in the Safran lab at CU Boulder in the fall. Congrats Sebrina!
January 2025: Dr. Buck went up for tenure and the department vote was positive! Now the decision goes to upper admin.
January 2025: Former MS student Hailea Boggess started a new job as a lab tech in the Langwig lab at Virginia Tech. Congrats Hailea!
November 2024: PhD student Jax Salguero traveled to Perth, Australia for the Society of Marine Mammalogy conference. She gave a talk entitled Molecular characterization and evolutionary relationships of Crassicauda spp. (Nematoda: Spirurida) infecting cetaceans of the Northwest Atlantic.
August 2024: Grace Kokasko joined the lab as a new PhD student. Grace recently completed her MS degree at Hofstra University (advisor: Jason Williams) and will be working on direct and indirect effects of parasites for her PhD. Welcome Grace!
