Interview with Sarah Bordenstein: a career path less traveled, research, and educating the next generation with the Wolbachia Project
Description
In this episode Jon talks with Sarah Bordenstein, associate research professor at Pennsylvania State University as a co lead of the Bordenstein lab. She is also She is also the director of the Wolbachia project. We talk about her journey in becoming a research professor, what her lab researches, and how the Wolbachia project is teaching students about the microbe, how it affects insects, how to run molecular testing and contributing to the research of this field.
To learn more about the Wolbachia project click the link here. you can also follow them on social media by searching @WolbachiaProj on twitter or on Instagram by searching The Wolbachia Project.
If you are interested in Sarah's research, you can check out the labs website here.
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