Janine Mistrick is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. She received her B.S. in Ecology (as well as a B.S. in French and Francophone Studies) from Penn State University and is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. She has worked extensively in field ecology conducting: plant phenology and shrub expansion research in western Greenland, acoustic surveys for bats in the Chugach National Forest in Alaska, radio telemetry monitoring of sage-grouse in Wyoming, and trapping wild rodents in a longitudinal population and parasite study in central Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the role of landscape and habitat features in shaping animal movement and community composition and the influence of these factors on disease dynamics in wildlife populations. She’s fascinated by the power of network modeling and genomic techniques to bolster conclusions made from ecological data and hopes to incorporate these analyses into her dissertation research. When Janine isn’t out in the field or fumbling her way through the lab, she can be found working out at the gym, baking delicious goodies for lab meetings, paddling all 10,000 Minnesota lakes in her kayak, or listening to jazz public radio.