The Gator TAILS Podcast is no longer recording, but you can still listen to old episodes (use the toolbar on the right for Seasons 1, 2, and 3).
Gator TAILS (Talking About Inquiry, Learning, and Scholarship) was a podcast that explored the many flavors of research, scholarship, and creative work at Allegheny College, home of the Allegheny Gators. Allegheny College has a longstanding tradition of undergraduate research that dates back to the college’s founding in 1815 and our award-winning research program is woven into the fabric of the Allegheny experience. Host Dr. Matt Venesky talked with current undergraduate students at Allegheny and chatted about the research and scholarship they were involved in while attending Allegheny. You’ll hear from students across all disciplines, all academic years, and at various stages of their project as Dr. Venesky and students discussed what it meant to participate in research and creative expression at Allegheny.
You can use the links below to listen to old episodes of Gator TAILS from your favorite podcast platform.
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Matt Venesky is an Associate Professor of Biology and the former Director of the Office of URSCA (Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities) at Allegheny College. Matt is an infectious disease ecologist who studies host-parasite interactions at different ecological scales, including the organism (e.g., stress physiology, metabolic ecology, and nutrition), populations (e.g., the distribution and abundance of parasites within different environments), and ecological communities (e.g., how parasite-infected hosts affect the structure and function of communities). Most of the research in his lab uses amphibians and the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (the fungus that causes the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis) as a study system; however, he also works with snails and their trematode parasites as well as ticks and the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease.
Click below to hear Matt talk about his vision for Gator TAILS.