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Current Members

  • Sydney Birch

    Sensory evolution and ecology - current PhD student

    • Hannah ParÉ

    Elucidating features of gene family evolution using novel phylogenetic comparative methods- current PhD student

    Chris Gonzales

    Evolution of chemoreceptor gene families and hagfish sensory systems- current PhD student

    Marissa Cartee

    Lab Manager 2021, Hydra husbandy, Sponge characteristics project

    Cayo (PP)

    Ecological dynamics of avian and sciurid flight-or-fight responces, Littoral zone biodiversity, also bunnies

Lab alumns

  • Curtis Provencher

    Phylogenetic focusing and the origins of aniamal opsins - past MS student

  • Nhen Hunter

    High quality transcriptome assembly for the tree of life, past McNair Scholar

  • Andrew Sullivan

    Pfizer COVID Bioassay and Impurities Testing Group

  • Charlie DiMeo

    Cnidarian sensory biology, SURF award, REAP program - BS '18

  • John Chan

    The role of adylate cyclase in cnidarian phototransduction -MS '17'

  • Anna Baker

    Cnidarian sensory biology, SURF award - Currently in grad program at Yale University - BS '17

  • Joseph Graff

    Phylogenetic analyses of animal chemosensitivity proteins - BS '17

  • Molly Hartley

    • Molecular biology of cnidarian photosensitivity, Goldwater honorable mention '16, REAP program, SURF program - BS '16 - currently in med school at Penn State

    • Heather Shahzade

    Molecular biology of cnidarian chemosensitivity, SURF program - BS '16 - currently conducting research at Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Sabah Ul-Hassan @sabahzero

    Former technician, molecular biology - currently in grad program at UC Merced studying microbial ecology