Two students will be starting their PhDs in the lab this year, Kelly Murray-Stoker and Ilia Maria Ferzoco!  Ilia is completing her MSc in the lab studying the competition-colonization trade-off as a mechanism that may facilitate co-existence of congeneric backswimmers and will be starting her PhD in the fall.  Kelly completed her MS with Drs. Darold Batzer and Jospeh McHugh at the University of Georgia studying community change in the Ogeechee River.  Kelly was awarded a Connaught International Scholarship to from the University of Toronto to support her doctoral work and will be getting a running start on research on the caddisfly communities of the rivers and streams of the GTA starting this summer.  Welcome to both Kelly and Ilia – we’re excited to have you in the lab!