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Assistant researcher at the American Museum of Natural History
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Who wants a job like mine? If so you may be in luck! 🥳

Virginia Tech is hiring an Insect Identification Laboratory Manager: careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us... Follow the link for info and to apply.
August 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I have a really great resume and lots of lab experience for being freshly graduated and I can’t even get an interview 😭💔 this job market is KILLING ME
August 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A poster I worked on got published! I miss the flies every dayyy😭🩷🪰

academicworks.cuny.edu/oaa_ur/2/
Investigation into the Microbiome of Blow Fly Eggs Using MicroSEQTM ID
There is little published research characterizing the microbiome associated with blow fly eggs and how they may affect the colonization behaviors of certain blow fly species. Once deposited, blow fly eggs are rapidly introduced to a diverse range of microorganisms, which can vary depending on the species of blow fly, the environment, and the decomposition stage of the substrate (Junqueira et al., 2017). Since blow flies are among the first insects to colonize decomposing remains, the microbial communities present on their eggs could serve as key indicators of the decomposition stage at the time of egg-laying, thus providing a potential new method for refining PMI, or post-mortem interval, estimations (Joseph et al., 2011). In this study, the egg microbiomes of three blow fly species were studied: Lucilia sericata (Meigen), Phormia regina (Meigen), and Calliphora vicina (Robineau-Desvoidy). For each species, eggs were collected and swabbed within one hour of deposition and plated onto both tryptic soy agar (TSA) and 5% sheep’s blood agar. From these plates, individual microbial strains were identified and plated on TSA or blood agar to create isolate colonies to be used for species-level identifications using the MicroSEQTM ID workflow. MicroSEQTM ID provided an easy, efficient, and reliable sequencing method for identifying egg-associated microbes, and this study demonstrated that 5% sheep’s blood agar was useful in identifying hemolytic-specific microbial strains. The specific microorganisms identified in this experiment demonstrated that the microbiome associated with blow fly eggs is highly complex and diverse, and has many consistent and species-specific aspects between blow flies. This study highlighted the relevance of using MicroSEQTM ID and blood agar in a variety of contexts beyond forensic entomology and how the microbiomes of blow fly eggs could play a role in colonization behavior.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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June 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Lately
June 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Happy 36th to me :) 🎂🎈
June 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Big bruise and a big rooftop pool ⛅️
June 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I DID IT 😭🎓
May 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My time at the American Museum of Natural History has been one of the greatest achievements of my life and it is bittersweet because I am just not that into museum lab work.

In July I’ll be doing outside work with spiders and maybe I will love that? Field mouse 🐁 or lab rat 🐀?
May 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Casual work finds 🦑🦂🐜🕷️🐙
January 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lately 🦂🧬
January 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Knife through the heart
January 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Official arachnid princess 🕷️🎀🦂
January 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
the job search is going well
January 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I think some of the most beautiful arachnids I saw in Costa Rica at the start of last year were the cosmetid harvestmen: large, colorful, and each species uniquely patterned
January 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I would die for him
I made this… I had fun making this…
January 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Winter law class, Natural History Museum 6 month research, spring semester all while working 30+ hours a week up next and yes I will ace all of them as well😈
December 29, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Orlando crowd: "Let's go Knicks"

Orlando organist: "Let's go Magic"
December 28, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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RIP to actress Olivia Hussey, known to horror fans for her work in BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), IT (1990), and PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING.
December 28, 2024 at 3:01 AM
What will it take to survive the next 6 months 🥲
December 27, 2024 at 12:42 AM