Scientist-Educator Partnerships & Opportunities Summer Envisionships Six-week long summer research experiences are available for selected high school students and teachers who conducted the Discover the Microbes Within! lab series in their classrooms. These paid summer research experiences would occur in a Wolbachia research lab at the MBL or local institution near your own location. The intention is to embark on a new project that will allow teachers and students to experience what a scientist's day is like while collecting reliable data new to the scientific community. Stipends will be competitive and we encourage applications from individual students and teachers or pairings of a teacher and student from the same classroom. Please contact us with any questions. The application is currently not available for this opportunity. 2011 Envisionship Report William Anderson and William Martin Unionville High School, Kennett Square PA and Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale PA Dr. Willy Eldridge, Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale PA Distribution of Wolbachia pipientis Among Aquatic Insects in High and Low Quality Streams in Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania (preliminary report) (Word document) Anderson-Martin Appendix (excel document) 2010 Envisionship Reports Kendra Book, James R. Foresman, Michael Griffin, Connor Menghini and Eric Row Dept. of Biology, Pittsburg State University and Pittsburg High School, Pittsburg, KS Survey of the Wolbachis spp. Infection Rate in the Flea Species Ctenocephalides filias in Southeast Kansas (Word document) Foresman Appendix (excel document) Cynthia D. Jensen, and Chelsea Cassidy Gateway Regional High School, Huntington, Massachusetts Dr. Robert Childs, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Comparing Wolbachia Infection Rates and Investigating Transmission Methods in Two Distinct Areas (pdf document, 44MB) Joshua D. Nelson and Felicity Bennett Point Pleasant Borough High School, Point Pleasant, NJ Dr. Lee Kerkhoff, Rutgers University Characterization of Wolbachia pipientis Infections in Arthropods Native to Various Coastal New Jersey Habitats (Word document) 2009 Envisionship Reports Tamica Stubbs, Jennifer Telschow and Chanelle Whitehurst E.E. Waddell High School, Charlotte, NC Dr. Julie Goodliffe, University of North Carolina- Charlotte Assessing the Prevalence of Wolbachia pipientis in Common Arthropods from Various North Carolina Habitats Report (Word document) Poster (powerpoint) Matt Allen and Antonio DeRosa Memmorial High School, Eau Claire, WI Dr. Paula Kleintjes-Neff, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The prevalence of Wolbachia infection in common pest insects of organic and GMO-free crops in western Wisconsin (Word document) Data File (.xlsx) 2008 Envisionship Reports Chris Brothers Falmouth High School, Falmouth MA Dr. Seth Bordenstein, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Emergence of Periodical Cicadas: A Survey for the Bacterial Endosymbiont Wolbachia Brian Dempsey and Yuan Kang Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, Acton MA Dr. Todd Livdahl, Clark University, Worcester, MA Investigating the presence of Wolbachia pipientis in various mosquito species (Word document) Camille Weinberg Falmouth High School, Falmouth MA Dr. Seth Bordenstein, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Wolbachia DNA Sequences in Fijian Ants (Word document) Rachel Martin Falmouth High School, Falmouth MA Dr. Seth Bordenstein, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Wolbachia transmission patterns in different species of Nasonia (Word document) Other Projects 2011 Cynthia Jensen investigated the modes of transmission of Wolbachia pipientis on the the Japanese beetle-Popillia japonica Newman in partial completion of her MS in Science Education from the University of Nebraska Kearny. Investigating the modes of transmission of Wolbachia pipientis on the the Japanese beetle-Popillia japonica Newman (Word document) 2010 Michelle Frei and Samuel Ginsburg Kantonsschule Wettingen, Basel, Switzerland Wolbachia-Befall bei Hymenopteren: Eine erste Datenerfassung aus der Schweiz (pdf document) (Wolbahia Infestiation in Hymenoptera: First Data Acquisition from Switzerland) 2010 Tamica Stubbs E.E. Waddell High School Charlotte, NC The Effects of EDTA/Tetracycline on Wolbachia pipientis (powerpoint) 2009 Dr. Amy Shenk and Danning Ge North Carolina School of Science and Math Durham, NC Transmission rates of the gene driver, Wolbachia, under different temperature regimes (pdf)