Gina is a visiting postdoc in the Strassmann/Queller lab, and she is also a postdoc in Marvin Whiteley’s lab in the Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection and the School of Biology at Georgia Tech. She is passionate about understanding how interactions between organisms influence their evolution and their behavior.
Gina is originally from Hopewell, New Jersey and received a BA in molecular biology from Pomona College in 2010. She then joined Cameron Currie’s lab as part of the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her PhD, Gina studied how microbes and microbial communities degrade plant biomass in association with insects using research approaches ranging from fieldwork to experimental evolution to bioinformatics. Since starting her postdoc in 2016, Gina has used her background in microbial ecology and evolution to study microbe-microbe interactions in the oral cavity.
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