STEPHANIE THORNTON is a junior microbiology major at Texas A&M University. During the summer of 2013, along-side PhD student, Chin Heo, she examined the microbial succession on swine carrion when arthropod activity was restricted. Stephanie will continue to work in the FLIES Facility, statistically analyzing the Biolog data collected to determine the relationship between microbial and arthropod activity on vertebrate carrion.