Graduate Students
Bret Cline - Genetic relationships of Bufo woodhousii from the Pacific Northwest.
Undergraduate Students
Jenny Bronson - Spider identification and fluorescence in spiders.
My-Trinh Do - Fluorophores in spiders.
Sarah Martha - Arachnid mitochondrial genomics.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Stuart Longhorn - Systematics of arachnids using information from mitochondrial genomes: The effects of mutational bias on phylogeny reconstruction.
Pierre Paquin - Systematics of Cicurina spiders; Evolution and conservation of cave-dwelling arachnids.
Former Members
Kindra Hazen (graduate student) - Fluorescence in spiders.
Nadine Dupérré (visiting scientist) - Scientific illustrations of spiders; systematics of spiders.
Amy Clawser (undergraduate) - Systematics of opilionids and molecular evolution of their mitochondrial genomes.
Anna Coleman-Hulbert (undergraduate) - Spider identification and fluorescence in spiders.
Jamey Giangarlo - (undergraduate) Reproductive behavior of the opilionid Phalangium opilio.
Erin Gunderson (undergraduate) - Reproductive behavior of the opilionid Phalangium opilio.
Monte Mattsson (undergraduate) - Fluorescence in spiders.
Sarah Moncrief (undergraduate) - Fluorophores in spiders.
Katherine Ona (undergraduate) - Phylogeography of Spea toads in the desert southwest.
Mihaela Vartop (undergraduate) - Phylogeography of the toad Bufo cognatus in the desert southwest.
John Wawro - (undergraduate) - Primers for arachnid mitochondrial genomes.
Potential Students Please contact me if you are interested in working in my lab group on topics ranging from molecular evolution, phylogenetics, sexual selection, speciation, to arachnid biology. For application information, see the Biology Department web page. http://www.orgbio.pdx.edu/
