Principal investigator

Dr. Julia C. Buck (she/her)
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina Wilmington
julia.buck (at) gmail.com
buckj (at) uncw.edu
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Current graduate students

Veronica Torres (they/them) joined the lab in Fall 2020 and is studying how fish sociality affects parasite avoidance.
​vat3962 (at) uncw.edu

Robert Finn (he/him) joined the lab in Fall 2020 and is studying co-infection of grass shrimp with a bopyrid isopod and a trematode. rpf7885 (at) uncw.edu

Jacquelyn Salguero (she/her) joined the lab in Fall 2021 and is studying parasites of marine mammals in collaboration with the UNCW Marine Mammal Stranding Program. jms2879 (at) uncw.edu

Hailea Howard (she/her) joined the lab in Spring 2022 and is studying infection of native bay scallops by a newly-discovered trematode parasite. hfh4639 (at) uncw.edu

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Current undergraduate students

Griffin May (she/her) - DIS student

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Lab alumni

Olivia Michael (she/her)
Honors student
​Now in grad school at Wake Forest

Brian Smith (he/him)
DIS student
​Now in grad school at UNCW

Alex Crook (he/him)
​DIS student

Brandon Thompson (he/him)
DIS student