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Lab Manager

Rebecca Scholl - Safety and Compliance officer for college of Life Sciences

Office:  387 Widtsoe Building

Phone:  422-6875

Email:  rscholl@byu.edu

Research Interests:   Population genetics, human genetics, molecular evolution, bioinformatics

 

Post Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Alison Whiting

 

Research Interests:  Ordinal level insect systematics, scincid lizard systematics, higher level lizard relationships, limb evolution.

Dr. Antonio Carvajal

Email:  acraaj@uvigo.es

University of Vigo, Spain

Research Interests:  Recombination and viral evolution, conservation genetics, evolutionary computation, speciation processes.

Dr. Marcos Perez-Losada

Research Interests:  Bioinformatics, molecular evolution, biogeography, phylogenetics, conservation genetics, infectious diseases.

Dr. Savel Daniels

Email:  srd@sun.ac.za

Research Interests:  Crustacean systematics, biogeography, phylogenetics, conservation.

Dr. D. James Harris, Ph.D

Email:  james@icav.up.pt

Dr. Elizabeth Sinclair, Ph.D

Email:  esinclair@iinet.net.au

Dr. Dan Vasco, Ph.D.

 

Graduate Students

Ashley Egan, Ph.D. 

Email: 

Research Interests:  Molecular systematics, biogeography, and population genetics of North American Psoraleeae (Leguminosae); nonrandom extinction risk and conservation genetics of rare Psoraleeae species

Marianne Sonntag Marianne Sonntag, M.S.

Jennifer E. Buhay, Ph.D.

Indiana University
Department of Biology
1001 East Third Street
Bloomington IN 47405

Email:   jenbuhay@indiana.edu

Research Interests:  Crustacean systematics, biogeography of southeastern US rivers, cave evolution and ecology, conservation of freshwater invertebrates

Megan Porter, Ph.D.

Email:  porter@umbc.edu

Research Interests:  Shrimp systematics, opsin evolution.

James W. Fetzner Jr., Ph.D

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Section of Invertebrate Zoology

Email:  FetznerJ@carnegiemnh.org

Webpage:  http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/fetzner/

David Posada, Ph.D

University of Vigo, Spain

Email:  dposada@uvigo.es

Webpage:  http://darwin.uvigo.es/people/dposada.html

Dean Leavitt, M.S.

Email:  dhl6@email.byu.edu

Nathan Jackson, M.S.

Email: 

Visitors

 

Maigua Ricoy

Affiliation: Department of Ecology and Animal Biology. University of Vigo.
Spain

Research interest: Phylogenetics of earthworms, molecular systematics and
morphological taxonomy, reproduction and mating systems of earthworms,
vermicomposting.

 

 

Carlos Pedraza Lara

 

Affiliation: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

Ferran Palero

Affiliation: Univeristy of Barcelona, Spain


Tobias Santl

Affiliation: University of Regensburg, Germany

 

Regina Wetzer, Ph.D.

Affiliation: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

 

Dr. Alexandra Hiller

Affiliation: Department of Animal Ecology and Systematic Zoology

Justus-Liebig-University

Marilu Lopez-Mejia, M.S.

Affiliation:  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Email:  mlm@ibiologia.unam.mx

Research Interests:  Crustacean systematics, phylogenetics, population genetics, molecular evolution, biogeography, ecology, cave fauna.

Kathleen Sims, January 2005

Affiliation:  University of Colorado Boulder

Email:  simskf@colorado.edu

Research Interests:   Oreohelix Phylogenetics, phylogeography, biogeography .

Jesper Stenderup

University of Regensburg, Germany

Travis Palfreyman
Dr. Markus Pfenninger

Johann Wofgang Goethe-University, Germany

Email:  pfenninger@zoology.uni-frankfurt.de

Isabel Tarjuelo

Universtiy of Barcelona, Spain

Nuria Lopez

Universtiy of Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Frederic Grandjean

Universtiy of Poitiers, France

 

Susan Dippenarr

Fulbright Scholar from South Africa

  Diana Daly

Undergraduate Kalamazoo College, Michigan

  Linda Miller

University of Memphis

 

Undergraduate Students

Nate Ralston

Physics and Astronomy

 

Bryce Daines

Bioinformatics Major

Lee Thomas Call

Bioinformatics Major

Asher Jones

Natalie Hair B.S. Bioinformatics

University of Utah Cytogenetics, microarray lab

Email:  natnatbobat@gmail.com

Mark "THE NERD" Nolte - one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits

Email:  menolte@hotmail.com

Gone to Houston to toast. . .

Andre Bennin

James Finlay - Half Decent undergrad

Email:  jamesfinlay@gmail.com

Phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty crayfish

Dan Friedman
Emily Keller
Cynthia Penaflor
 

Richard Carey

Brady Curtis

Bethany Fredline

Tim O'connor

Josh Proulx

Heather Shull, 2004 Zoology, B.S.

Email:  hcshull@bu.edu

Honors Thesis:  Phylogeny of the Australian freshwater crayfish Euastacus based on four nuclear and mtDNA genes

ORCA Poster:  "Crawfish Queen"

Ryan Peterson, 2004

Email:  straffaren@hotmail.com

Matt Carpenter, 2004
Margaret Wright, 2004
Steve Woolley, 2004
  Halim Marrujo
Aaron Madsen
Ashley Nelson
Ted Oliphant
Sarah Quinlan
Dan Wheeler
Tara Simons
Rayna Clay
Carolyn Kwok
Eric Swenson
Crystal Komm
Mike Carlson
Ben Ellsworth

Cell Phone:  623-256-4423

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Last Updated:11 January 2008