Katie D'Amelio

Research Technician 2017-1019

Katie D’Amelio completed her M.S. at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA where she studied the gut microbiome of army ants. Her Master’s research focused on identifying how different factors such as host genetics, transmission mode, and host natural history may shape the diversity of microbes found within the army ant gut. She switched from insects to vertebrates and studied the gut microbiota of stickleback fish in the Kat Lab, where she focused on sequencing bacterial communities of stickleback guts and creating whole genomes of bacterial isolates. Katie is now working in the Genetics program at NOAA Fisheries’ Auke Bay Labs in Juneau, focusing on salmon population genetics.