Devin Jones, Graduate Student, USA

Devin is a Ph.D. candidate at Montana State University with Dr. Raina Plowright. She earned her MSc at Grand Valley State University studying bat foraging ecology in the context of bat health. She is broadly interested in how gastrointestinal microbiome dynamics in wildlife hosts may influence spillover events. More specifically, her dissertation research focuses on how the gut microbiome of black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto) changes in response to different diets and how these dietary and microbiome shifts relate to bat health and bats’ ability to maintain and transmit infectious diseases.