Dylan Ryals

Undergraduate Student, Class of 2020

Beehive frame covered in bees, atop open commercial hive, research tools to right

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.