Huge congratulations to undergrad researchers Macy Wiktorowski and Waseq Mohammed, who both successfully defended their thesis research today!
Macy’s project examined the diversity of mites on the OSU campus, and Waseq looked for population structure within a common parasitoid of N. lecontei.
Both of them also presented their research at our research forum earlier this week! Great job, you two!
Congratulations to Royce Glass, Waseq Mohammed, Marie Walton, and Macy Wiktorowski, who represented the Bagley lab at this year’s Undergraduate Research Forum! It was a great event with a HUGE turnout – so cool to see all the great things happening on the Lima campus!
A HUGE congratulation goes to Marie Walton, who took first place for her poster in the 2023 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Marie presented her thesis research, entitled “Lepidopteran Diversity in a Restored Prairie”, which describes butterfly and moth diversity in the restored Tecumseh Prairie on the OSU Lima campus.
As if that wasn’t enough, Marie also successfully defended her thesis on the same day!
Congratulations to Marie!
Congratulations to Marie and Carson for rocking their poster presentations at the 2022 Evolution meeting in Cleveland, OH!
Carson with his poster.
Marie with her poster.
We also got to meet the fabulous Nina West during the first Evolution’s Rainbow session.
Science-ing with Nina West!
Partying with Nina West!
We capped off our successful trip with a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
The end of a great meeting at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Ariba, Morgan, Waseq, and Macy for rocking their poster presentations at this year’s Undergraduate Research Forum! All of their posters turned out great, and I overheard some great conversations happening at their stations.
Ariba standing in front of their poster.
Macy standing in front of her poster.
Morgan standing in front of her poster.
Waseq standing in front of his poster.
Congratulations are in order for undergraduate researcher Marie Walton, who was selected for the competitive Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program. This will support her work in the lab over the summer, where she will continue her work to catalog the species of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) that occur in the Tecumseh Interpretive Nature Preserve adjacent to the OSU Lima campus.
Congratulations Marie!!
The first graduate student in the Bagley lab, Carson Kephart, has joined us. Carson will be taking on the job of describing the community of parasites that attack Neodiprion lecontei.
Welcome to the lab, Carson!
Welcome to the Bagley lab website! The lab was established in Autumn 2020 at OSU Lima. We are an evolutionary biology lab that seeks to understand how biodiversity is generated and maintained in natural populations. Specifically, we are interested in the drivers of diversity in herbivorous insects, and if and how differentiation at the plant-insect trophic level radiates through, and in turn is impacted by, interactions with other trophic levels (parasites, diseases, etc.). We take an integrative approach to answer these questions, evaluating genotypic and phenotypic data in the context of both natural history information and environmental variation. We hope you will join us as we continue to explore these questions in our focal system: the community of insects associated with Neodiprion sawflies.