Marianna Karageorgi

Marianna (Marianthi) is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Petrov lab (2020-now). Her research is focused on understanding how novel adaptive traits emerge and evolve in nature. She did her undergraduate studies in the University of Crete and the University of Heidelberg. During her PhD in the lab of Dr. Benjamin Prud’homme in Marseille, supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship, she studied how the agricultural pest Drosophila suzukii evolved its novel egg-laying behavior. In her postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Noah Whiteman at Berkeley, she studied how monarch butterflies and other specialist insects have evolved resistance to cardiac glycoside toxins produced by their host plants. In the Petrov lab, Marianna is studying how resistance to cardiac glycosides toxins and pesticides emerge in wild Drosophila populations. To read more about Marianna’s check out her personal website.