MELINDA DOOLEY 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 Cochliomyia macellaria and Chrysomya rufifacies. Melinda presented her research at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference in Denver, Colorado in February 2009.