About Julie K. Stahlhut
Julie Stahlhut received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 1979. She then worked in various technical fields for 12 years, until she remembered that she always wanted to be an entomologist when she grew up. As a student of non-traditional age, she earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in biological sciences from Western Michigan University, where she did research on inbreeding and sex determination in solitary wasps. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Rochester, where she studies various aspects of the biology of Wolbachia, a reproductive symbiont of many invertebrates. She maintains her own entomological blog, Stridulations, and thinks that arthropods are the coolest things to ever walk (or, in some cases, swim) the earth.
About Julie K. Stahlhut
Interesting. My career, such as it is, has also included a chunk of corporate wage slave time. I will have to differ on the coolest invertebrate phylum, though: I will plug for the Mollusca, thanks. I'm especially fond of gastropods.