The Walke Lab

Jeni was thrilled to give a talk to the Whidbey Island Beekeepers Association, AKA The Whidbees, where we discussed “Honey Bee Gut...

The 3rd graders at the Summit School in Spokane loved meeting Autumn's smooth-sided toad, Phil, and learning all about frogs! Apparently...

Walke Lab social event celebrating the new year and the critical scientific contributions of Dr. Rosalind Franklin in the play Photograph...

Graduate student Macee presents her NSF honey bee microbiome and pesticide research at the Entomological Society of America conference in...

Jeni attended, presented, and volunteered to monitor a session at The Wildlife Society annual meeting, which was conveniently held in...

It was an honor to represent EWU College of STEM at the AISES* National Conference in Palm Springs, CA. Seeing the incredible talent of...

It was so great to have Krista and Autumn attend and present their research at the first ever Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease (GARD)...

I am honored to be a part of this incredibly talented international team of microbial ecologist sharing our perspective on microbiome...

Congratulations to Krista Dodd on graduating with her Biology Masters in Science degree! Her thesis project focused on amphibian skin microbiomes and disease at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, WA. She found that chorus frogs have significantly higher levels of chytrid fungus, and different skin microbiomes, than co-habiting spotted frogs. In addition, the chorus frogs' skin microbiomes were correlated with fungal infection, but this pattern was not observed in the spotted

Thank you Washington State University Department of Entomology for the invitation to give a Hyde Seminar talk (https://entomology.wsu.edu...