Shelby Monnin
in Team
Shelby is an veterinary student at UPenn (Class of ‘26) who spent the summer of 2023 in the lab working jointly with the PennVet Wildlife Futures program. As a ‘WFP’ student, Shelby split her time between bench work and field work. She collected and identified hundreds of ticks recovered from White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in PA state. She extracted DNA from these ticks and ran QPCR tests for a range of pathogens, then used this data to select ticks for metagenomic sequencing.
