#  Dylan Ryals 

 



## **Undergraduate Student, Class of 2020**

   ![Beehive frame covered in bees, atop open commercial hive, research tools to right](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/farrell/files/2019_dylan_field_rsrch_bee_hives.jpeg?itok=KDfT6NJw) 

 

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](/news/dylan-awarded-hoopes-prize) for his thesis. Additionally, he collaborated on research into the *Aristolochia* of Hispaniola.