Congratulations Charlie on receiving this award!
I am thrilled to announce that I am one of 43 undergraduates from Penn State who has been selected to receive an Erickson Discovery Grant this summer from the Penn State Office of Undergraduate Education. This award will help to fund my research project this summer: "Beyond Pigments: A Microbial Tale of Flavonoid-Induced Phyllosphere Changes in Maize" In this project, I am working to investigate the impacts of plant-produced flavonoid compounds on the microbial communities of plants and their insect pests, hoping to better understand the roles these compounds play in shaping plant-insect-microbe interactions. #research #pennstate