Jeremy joined the lab in June of 2022 and started in the iBio PhD program in Fall of 2022. He completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Northern Iowa where he received the prestigious Purple and Old Gold Award for Meritorious Scholarship. For his master’s work, Jeremy studied the genomic diversity and growth of Iowa bluegill. Although Jeremy started his PhD by dabbling in research on copepod parasite infections and aging in walleye fishes, his dissertation will be focused on the ecological genetics of gill lice infections (genus Salmincola) in salmonids.