Kaitlin M. Baudier
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We are not recruiting new lab members at this time.
However, when future opportunities in our lab become available, information about those positions will appear here.

Lab Members

Principal Investigator

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Email: [email protected]
Lab: JST 416, Office: JST 413
Office Phone: 601-266-4660
 
​Kaitlin M. Baudier, Ph.D.
I am originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. I received my B.S. in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University in 2008 and my PhD in Biological Sciences at Drexel University in 2017, advised by Sean O'Donnell. From 2017 to 2020 I did postdoctoral research in group defense and thermal ecology in the labs of Jennifer Fewell, Ted Pavlic, and Stephen Pratt, as part of the Social Insect Research Group at Arizona State University. In January of 2021 I began my current position as an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Google Scholar - OrcID - ResearchGate - Youtube - Artwork 

Current Graduate Students

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​Karen Y. Robles López - PhD Candidate
Dissertation project: Climatic adaptations and non-prey interactions of army ants (Eciton spp.)

I was born and raised in Colombia. I studied biology in the University of Cauca and did my masters in the National University of Colombia, campus Medellín. I have worked with insects in different places of Colombia and I am very interested in Ecology, plant-insect interactions, and effects of climate change. I also loved to run, swim and travel. 
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​Kristin M. Robinson - PhD Candidate​
​Dissertation project: Division of labor in the context of defense against abiotic and biotic threats to stingless bees (Tetragonisca angustula)

I am a born and raised Minnesotan. I attended the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities where I worked in Dr. Marlene Zuk's lab and received my B.S. in Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior. In the Fall of 2021, I joined the Baudier Lab as a PhD student in the Biological Sciences program at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Undergraduate researchers

Present:
Leila Pasalo-Pichon - 2025-present
Maddie Fernandez - 2025-present
Jacob Barnes - 2025-present
Vinny Halsey - 2025-present (Honors Scholar)
Juno Fulgham - 2024-present
Aaron Morgan - 2024-present (Honors Scholar)
   *co-advised by Dr. Shahid Karim*
Noah Williamson - 2024-present (Honors / Beckman Scholar)
   *co-advised by Dr. Kayla Stan*
Joseph Serio - 2023-present (Honors / Goldwater Scholar)​ 
​   *co-advised by Dr. Alex Flynt*
Caroline (Apollo) Marley - 2022-present (Honors Scholar
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​Past
Lila Blackburn - 2024-2025
Kelly (Jelly) James​ - 2024​
Haley Schonekas - 2023-24
​Nadia Gillespie - 2023-2024 (Honors Scholar)
Zoe Mabry - 2023
​Taylor (Nikki) Guild - 2022-23 (Honors Scholar)
​​Alycia Johnson - 2021-23 *co-advised by Dr. Don Yee*

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I'd also like to recognize the many amazing high school, undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, and graduate students who have played an integral role in various research projects over the years prior to the formation of our lab at USM. Many have gone on to pursue careers in academia, education, biology, medicine, ecology and conservation. All are greatly appreciated.
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