Current Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Ph.D. students
- Kevin Horn - WormNet II researcher
- Alonso J. Cordoba - novel nuclear-protein coding genes for metazoan phylogenetic studies
M.S. students
- None at the moment!
Undergraduates
- Nicholas Defreitas - Research assistant studying the phylogeny of Polygyridae, a group of eastern North American land snails
- Alexis Bergman - REACH scholar studying the phylogeography of the bigfin squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) and the Indian squid (Uroteuthis duvauceli), two commercially important Indo-Pacific loliginid species
- Megan Ratts - Research assistant on the WormNet II project
- Kailie Roth - Saluki Research Rookie studying the phylogeny of polygyrid snails
Former Lab Members
Master's students
- Stephanie Clutts - molecular and morphological phylogeny and phylogeography of tigersnails (Anguispira); currently a lab technician on the Hymenoptera AToL project with Michael Sharkey at the University of Kentucky
- Marla Coppolino - distribution, abundance and ecology of land snails in southwestern Illinois
- Michael Venarsky - population genetics and life history of the endangered Illinois cave amphipod Gammarus acherondytes; currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama
- Natalie Heck - population genetics of Thanasimus dubius, a beetle that preys upon bark beetles
Undergraduates
- Kelsey Jarrett - phylogeography of the pharaoh cuttle Sepia pharaonis, a commercially important Indo-Pacific sepiid
- Adria Pilsits - phylogeny of Alloteuthis, a group of eastern Atlantic/Mediterranean loliginid squid
- Ryan Engelke - phylogeography of the pharaoh cuttle Sepia pharaonis; currently working in the biotechnology department at Sigma-Aldrich
- Dan Govoni - research assistant working with Marla Coppolino on her land snail study; currently pursuing a graduate degree in Iceland