#  Dylan awarded Hoopes Prize 

 





June 01, 2020

 

 

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Beehive frame covered in bees, while conducting field research // Photo courtesy of Dylan Ryals

 



 

Congratulations to graduating senior Dylan Ryals of the Farrell Lab for being awarded the [Hoopes Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/hoopes-prize) for his senior thesis, “Of Mites and Men: Using Spatially Explicit Sampling and Genetic Sequencing to Uncover Disease Dynamics of Honeybee Parasite Varroa destructor in Migratory Apiculture.” 

 

 

 

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