Rachel Osborn wins graduate student research enhancement award

Rachel Osborn, a doctoral student with Anthony Cognato, has received the 2015 Coleopterists Society's Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award for her research on xyleborine ambrosia beetles and their associated fungi.

Rachel Osborn, a doctoral student with Anthony Cognato, has received the 2015 Coleopterists Society's Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award for her research on xyleborine ambrosia beetles and their associated fungi. These funds, in part, will allow her to conduct her first trip to Ecuador to collect specimens and culture their fungi. Also, she will create a molecular phylogeny for the beetles and fungi to help explore patterns of coevolution. These preliminary data will be used as the basis for future National Science Foundation proposals. 

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