Word: piercees
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Soon after, Pierce was spending the summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory near Crested Butte, Colo.
"I told him that I was curious about butterflies," Pierce recalls. "He got a big smile on his face and ushered me right in."
As an example, in tracing the origin of communication between caterpillars and ants, Pierce has worked with both molecular biologists and biochemists.
Early on, Pierce's penchant for interdisciplinary studies took her beyond the world of butterflies into the world of ants--with none other than Harvard's Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning entymologist known affectionately as the "ant man."
Pierce actually studied under Wilson when she was working towards her Ph.D. at Harvard. But the ant man is not Pierce's number one mentor. That distinction belongs to Remington, whose inspiring lecture on butterflies convinced Pierce to stop by his offices while she was an undergraduate.