{"id":283,"date":"2019-07-15T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helmslab.wordpress.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-07-15T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T21:27:47","slug":"summer-2019-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2019 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Helms lab celebrated the end of a successful spring semester. Tammy graduated from Texas A&amp;M and has been accepted to the Entomology master&#8217;s program at Purdue. John finished his first semester as a master&#8217;s student, Laura completed her first year as an undergraduate, and Anjel completed her first year as a faculty member at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-280\" src=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_9451.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9451\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_9451.jpg 2934w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_9451-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_9451-768x680.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_9451-1024x907.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_9451-1568x1388.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allison Hay was accepted to the Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conservation Scholar Program for a summer internship where she is focusing on how small carnivores utilize the old growth and recently cut areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-289\" src=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dsc_3338.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_3338\" width=\"339\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dsc_3338.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dsc_3338-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dsc_3338-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dsc_3338-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dsc_3338-1568x2352.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also welcomed a new student, <a href=\"https:\/\/mthomps15.wixsite.com\/mthompson\">Morgan Thompson<\/a>, to the lab. Morgan recently completed a master&#8217;s degree in entomology from the University of Maryland. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in entomology from Texas A&amp;M where her dissertation research will focus on the chemical ecology of multi-trophic interactions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fullsizeoutput_ba1.jpeg\" alt=\"fullsizeoutput_ba1\" width=\"327\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fullsizeoutput_ba1.jpeg 2057w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fullsizeoutput_ba1-253x300.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fullsizeoutput_ba1-768x911.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fullsizeoutput_ba1-863x1024.jpeg 863w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fullsizeoutput_ba1-1568x1861.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anjel recently traveled to south Texas to present a seminar and meet with collaborators at the Agrilife Research Center in Weslaco. She was also able to reconnect with a former grad school colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utrgv.edu\/biology\/faculty\/edinburg\/rupesh-kariyat\/index.htm\">Rupesh Kariyat<\/a>, who is a faculty member at UTRGV.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-278\" src=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190711_113413.jpg\" alt=\"20190711_113413\" width=\"335\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190711_113413.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190711_113413-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190711_113413-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190711_113413-1568x2091.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helms lab celebrated the end of a successful spring semester. Tammy graduated from Texas A&amp;M and has been accepted to the Entomology master&#8217;s program at Purdue. John finished his first semester as a master&#8217;s student, Laura completed her first year as an undergraduate, and Anjel completed her first year as a faculty member at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}