Graduate students

The lab welcomes highly motivated graduate students who are interested in invertebrate biology, systematics, genomics, and/or bioinformatics to join my lab at either the masters or PhD level. Students in the lab are encouraged to address questions about invertebrate evolution and diversity leveraging morphological, molecular, and bioinformatic approaches. Students who are interested in any of the projects described on the Research page as well as students with their own ideas that they would like to pursue in the lab are encouraged to reach out.

For more information, please send an email to Kevin at kmkocot[at]ua.edu.

Undergraduate students

The lab welcomes highly motivated and academically strong undergraduate researchers who are interested in invertebrate biology, evolution, genomics, taxonomy, and bioinformatics. Applicants with career goals directly relevant to these fields are especially encouraged to reach out. Undergraduate researchers generally contribute to existing research projects at first. If all goes well, they move on to undertake their own independent research projects with the ultimate goal being publication of the work in a peer-reviewed journal.

Opportunities are also available for students to conduct research involving behind-the-scenes work in the Alabama Museum of Natural History collections, located just across the hall from the Kocot lab. These include museum collection curation, collection data management and analysis, and specimen digitization using macro photography and 3D photogrammetry are also available.

If any of these activities interest you, please e-mail me at kmkocot[at]ua.edu.