Leonora Bittleston

Harvard University

Bittleston is a graduate student in the Pierce and Pringle labs in the department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She studies the ecology and evolution of interactions among microbes, insects, and plants; with a focus on symbiosis and mutualism. Her research examines community diversity and structure in the aquatic microcosms within convergently evolved carnivorous pitcher plants.