Sara Engel

Sara Engel is an undergraduate student who worked in the Weber lab from 2022-23.  Her research focused on the parasite S. solidus’s life cycle, specifically how egg density influences hatching and its interactions with its first host. Her work is a large focus of our manuscript testing for (but not finding) quorum sensing in parasite egg hatching rates: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662852v1.full