Bio

Morgan Olmstead is at NC State pursuing her Ph.D. in Entomology with a focus on Genetic Pest Management. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Ohio University and a master’s degree in Biology from the University of New Hampshire, where she researched the microbiome of burying beetles and their parental care behavior. After graduation, she worked for Vanderbilt University at the sequencing core facility and then for the USDA-ARS in the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research working on Stored Product Pests and using Insects as Food and Feed. She joined the Lorenzen lab in 2023 in hopes of working on the genetic engineering of insects for feed as well as studying naturally occurring gene drives in flour beetles.