{"id":372,"date":"2016-11-21T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.agrilife.org\/forensicentomology\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2016-11-21T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T20:24:32","slug":"melinda-dooley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/college.agrilife.org\/forensicentomology\/people\/melinda-dooley\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda Dooley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-373\" src=\"\/\/college.agrilife.org\/forensicentomology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2016\/11\/dooley_clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"dooley_clip_image002\" width=\"244\" height=\"183\" \/>MELINDA DOOLEY<\/strong> is an undergraduate at M.I.T. She spent her in the FLIES laboratory as an REU-EXCITE participant in 2008. Her research focused on examining the role(s) of microbial symbionts exuded in the feces of adult <em>Cochliomyia macellaria<\/em> and <em>Chrysomya rufifacies<\/em>.\u00a0 Melinda presented her research at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference in Denver, Colorado in February 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELINDA DOOLEY is an undergraduate at M.I.T. She spent her in the FLIES laboratory as an REU-EXCITE participant in 2008. 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