Jack is a senior Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Insect Ecology and Conservation double major in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He has worked in the Delaney lab since spring of his freshman year helping with research and in the school’s apiary. His research has included looking at the effects of brood-mixing on colony genetics and disease and parasite resistance as well as examining the effects of parasite treatment on colony health and disease dynamics. He is currently working on his senior undergraduate thesis which involves using genetic extraction and evaluation techniques such as qPCR to quantify the pathogen load of deformed-wing virus in treatment hives with the goal of exploring the effects of varroa destructor mite treatments of colony mite and pathogen levels. In his free time Jack likes to hike, camp, and keep his own honey bees in his backyard in Maryland.
