Luke Arnce

I am a rising second year GGD graduate student in the Aquadro lab interested broadly in evolution and genotype-phenotype relationships. I intend to more specifically interrogate related questions through functional work, further elucidating the relationship between Wolbachia infection and germline stem cell genes in Drosophila, as well as population genetics work, using sequencing analysis of mosquito populations at various stages of Wolbachia infection to identify sites of potential selection and broader genetic characteristics of the populations.