#  Kaylin Chong Awarded the Vincent Roth Fund for Systematics Research 

 





May 15, 2024

 

 

     ![Kaylin Chong with long dark hair and glasses, wearing a dark top, in front of water with grassy embankments with trees](/sites/g/files/omnuum6811/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/oeb/files/kaylin_chong_crop.jpeg?itok=SEIG_vyq) 

 



 

Congratulations to Kaylin Chong (Brian Farrell, Advisor) awarded the [Vincent Roth Fund for Systematics Research from the American Arachnology Society (AAS)](https://www.americanarachnology.org/society/grants/research-grants/) for her project, "Developing a phylogeny for ticks (order: Ixodida) based on target enrichment of ultra conserved elements (UCEs)."

The Fund supports undergraduate or graduate student AAS members whose work focuses on the taxonomy or systematics of any arachnid group.



 

 

 



 

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