First, we are happy to announce that Fauna Yarza will be joining our group as our first BMS graduate student! Ady and Manuela wrapped up their rotations in the lab with a lot of new, exciting data and passed their batons onto two new rotation students in the lab, Gabi and Jenna. We also submitted our first lab pre-print found here, which reports a field study of internal microbes found in ticks. Finally, Seemay was recently selected as Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator and a Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar!