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Chicken Ecology and Ecosystem Services

Sofia Varriano

A very cute orange, black, and white cat.

Sofia Varriano

Sofie is a postdoctoral researcher in Bill Snyder’s lab. Contact her at svarriano@uga.edu.

  • CURO Undergrad Symposium

    Sofia Varriano

    Kariana Colon stands in front of her presentation slides.

    Kariana Colon, a UGA undergraduate student, presented her work on the Chick-EES project at UGA’s annual CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium this April. Kariana was given a CURO research award for her work this year identifying insects from farms and testing for associations between bacterial prevalence in chicken feces and weather variables. She is graduating this…

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  • CAES Undergrad Research Symposium

    Sofia Varriano

    The Chick-EES team. From left to right: Sofie Varriano, Bill Snyder, Avery Ryan, Kariana Colon, and Pedro Rodrigues.

    Kariana Colon (Class of 2024) presented the work she did as part of the Chick-EES project at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) Undergraduate Research Symposium on 4/2/2025. Kariana joined the Chick-EES project in Fall 2024 and spent two semesters performing DNA extractions and PCR assays, and identifying insects from sweep net samples.…

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  • UGA October Cultivate Story

    Sofia Varriano

    UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) published a story on the Chick-EES project on their Cultivate website in October. Maria M. Lameiras accompanied graduate students Sofia Varriano and Leniha Lagarde to Foster Brady, a collaborating farm, to interview team members and farm owner Clay Brady. Read the full story here.

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