Dylan Ryals

Undergraduate Student, Class of 2020

Beehive frame covered in bees, atop open commercial hive, research tools to right
Beehive frame covered in bees, while conducting field research // Photo courtesy of Dylan Ryals
Dylan's focus in the lab was on research regarding Varroa mites and honeybees, resulting in his thesis: “Of Mites and Men: Using Spatially Explicit Sampling and Genetic Sequencing to Uncover Disease Dynamics of Honeybee Parasite Varroa destructor in Migratory Apiculture.” Dylan received a Herchel Smith Fellowship in support of this work, and received a Hoopes Prize for his thesis. Additionally, he collaborated on research into the Aristolochia of Hispaniola.