Lots to celebrate this year in our lab! Several grants,a successful PhD defense, fellowships and awards, marriage, grad school acceptances, new jobs, new homes, and MOST importantly great colleagues and friends! I love our gang and am so proud of everyone!

So proud of Patrick! He started working with me as an undergraduate and is still assisting with my projects as a lab tech. He has been a vital piece of my dissertation and I couldn’t be more happy as his mentor that he is going on to pursue his PhD! 👏🏻🦠🐝

Congrats to Dr. Louis-Marie Bobay, our 2023 UNCG Early Career Research Excellence Award winner. 🏆 @lmbobay of UNCG Biology (& UNCG Computer Science JSNN-Nano Greensboro) is recognized for his scholarship on the evolution of microbial genomes & populations. 📖 more at research.uncg.edu/news/2023-rese…

We see some familiar faces! Congrats Amanda Weller and @LexiHoopman!!

PLEASE RT: I am looking to hire a Postdoc to come work in my "new" lab at NC State on my recently funded NIH R01 project "Deciphering the processes of adaptation and exaptation driving the evolution of opportunism in bacteria". See FULL AD BELOW drive.google.com/file/d/1I6gpER…

Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Frost and Dr. Megan Damico! #hooded #PhDone #UNCGGrad

Check out our 🐝 feature in the new magazine release! Kasie Raymann Megan E. Damico, Ph.D.

Check out my pre-print on how commercially available honey bee probiotics are not living up to their claims and wasting beekeepers' money. #beekeeping #probiotics #regulatoryscience

Please RT! We are now accepting applications for our BeeMORE Undergraduate Research Summer Program at NCSU for undergraduates interested in bees and/OR microbes. This is a funded summer research opportunity hosted at NC State in Raleigh NC! Apps due 01/31- harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/beemore/

One week left to apply to the postdoc position in my future lab at UC Santa Barbara! Lots of cool questions on the early evolution of life ☺️ Did I also mention how beautiful and diverse Santa Barbara is? 😜

I am very honored to be the chosen doctoral graduate for this year’s video and interview! Can’t wait for graduation this week 🤩

It’s hard to 🐝-lieve but after 23 years of school, I have graduated for the last time with a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences! #UNCGGrad #PhDone

The rarely studied bee reproductive microbiome is critical for the hive colony health. Patrick Gallagher from the Kasie Raymann lab shows how drones acquire their reproductive microbiome in comparison to the gut. Waiting for the work on queens. #ASMicrobe ASM

I am very very proud the announce that my 2024 summer REU student is the 1st author on our latest publication! And, Patrick Gallagher is co-author on the paper!!! BIG congrats to them both! Please check it out here! link.springer.com/article/10.118…

I am proud to share my first publication that I co-authored with Patrick Gallagher ! We discovered core bacteria in the reproductive tissues of male honey bees and revealed that social interactions are essential for the proper development of the microbiota. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…