Current Openings
The MS assistantship position advertised on ECOLOG and elsewhere has been filled. I have no further graduate positions available for Fall 2022.
Current Lab Members
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Logan Oleson
Logan is a Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Major who plans to attend graduate school and research amphibians and reptiles. She is assisting on several projects in the lab including plastic biodegredation in darkling beetles and protein supplementation in tadpoles. 
Rebecca Witty
Rebecca is a Microbiology major and a chemistry minor. She plans to attend medical school to become a pathologist. She is assisting on several projects in the lab including plastic biodegredation in darkling beetles and protein supplementation in tadpoles. |
Marissa Wright
Marissa is a Biology major on the Pre-Physician Assistant track. She plans to attend PA school upon graduation. She is enrolled in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. Her research project is examining the effects of protein supplementation on development and disease susceptibility in tadpoles. 
Allison Knaust
Allison is a Microbiology major who is still considering her future plans. She is assisting on several projects in the lab including plastic biodegredation in darkling beetles and protein supplementation in tadpoles.. |
Past Lab Members
Kyra Lathrop
Kyra is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a B.S. in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, She is currently authoring a manuscript on the effects of microbiota manipulation on get development and immunity in threespine stickleback. She is currently exploring graduate school opportunities in mammalogy. |
Jordan Henderson
Jordan is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a B.S. in Microbiology, Cellular, and Molecular Biology He is researched the effects of microbiota manipulation on gut development and immunity in threespine stickleback. |
Lindsey Dewey
Lindsey graduated from Murray State University in 2020 with a B.S. in Biology. She has worked for the Montana Conservation Corps and AmeriCorps. She is currently a graduate student at Southeast Missouri State University in Fritz Lab, where she is investigating the effects of beaver recolonization on high desert streams. She is a coauthor of a manuscript on the investigation of physiological trade-offs between reproductive effort and cellular immune responses in female wolf spiders, which was published in Physiological Entomology. |
Andre Gregory
Andre graduated from Murray State University in 2021 and plans to become a chiropractor. He now attends Logan University. He is a coauthor of a manuscript on the investigation of physiological trade-offs between reproductive effort and cellular immune responses in female wolf spiders, which was published in Physiological Entomology. |
