Mahal Bugay

Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Current advisor: Rachel M. Penczykowski, PhD

Undergraduate university: Agnes Scott College, 2019

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
I am broadly interested in how ecological context affects plant–microbe interactions, and how microbes impact the communities and ecosystems in which they occur.

Graduate publications
Sanaei E, Chavez J, Harris EV, Alcaide TY, Baffour-Addo K, Bugay MJ, Adams KL, Zelaya A, de Roode JC, Gerardo NM. 2024 Microbiome analysis of monarch butterflies reveals effects of development and diet. FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 100(12)::fiae143. PMCID: PMC11650861