Quinn McFrederick joined the Jaenike lab in mid-June. He hails originally from the west coast and after finishing his B.Sc. at UC-Berkeley he spent a good bit of time working in various zoos taking care of raptors, arthropods and other interesting wildlife. He returned to academia at San Francisco State University, where he did a Master’s on bumblebee diversity in urban parks with Gretchen LeBuhn. Finally, it was time for Quinn to see how the world outside of California lives, so he started a PhD at Univ. of Virginia in the lab of Doug Taylor. His PhD was on the evolutionary ecology of nematodes that are known to live only in bees and appear to be commensals. In the Jaenicke lab he has expanded his worm work to nematodes that cause diseases among mammals. He is an avid cyclist and has traveled widely- be sure to spend some time talking to him soon as he will be leaving for a NSF post-doc at UT-Austin in December.