Emily Puckett

Emily Puckett is a Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena's Faculty of Biological Sciences. She is part of the Department for Biochemistry and works within the Project Group Forest Beetles and Friends.

Research Focus:

• Chemical ecology of bark beetles
• Ophiostomatoid fungi symbiosis
• Insect nutritional ecology
• Mycological interactions in forest ecosystems

Supervisors: Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon and Dr. Dineshkumar Kandasamy.

Key Achievements:

• Recipient of Best Poster Award (2020) at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Symposium