Ashley is the Senior Research Coordinator for the Speer lab at Northern Arizona University. She has previously worked on soil ecology as well as various bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens in BSL2, BSL3, and ABSL3 facilities. She joined the Speer lab in August of 2025 and is currently working on a wide range of projects including 16S microbiome sequencing on root samples, Deer and Deer Keds, and aDNA work on historic fly samples. She got her Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from NAU and her Master of Arts in EMHS from ASU. 

Fun fact: She is an active member of two guilds in Northern Arizona

Contact:
Ashley.Itogawa@nau.edu
Linked-in: www.linkedin.com/in/anj79