Principal Investigator

Graduate Students

Nick Roberts
Ph.D. Candidate
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Emily McLaughlin
Ph.D. Candidate
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Chandler Olson
Ph.D. Candidate
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Ryan Bennett
M.S. Student
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Technicians

Kendra Abbott
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Will Farris
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Undergraduate Researchers

Dora Brummett
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Mattie Freeman
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Reed Fowler
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Adrian Hughes
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Wolfgang Martinez
[email protected]
Xavier Martinez
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March Tremayne
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Former Postdoctoral Researchers & Fellows

Carmen Cobo

Current Posotion:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Smithsonian NMNH
[email protected]
Franziska Bergmeier

Current Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher,
LMU Munich
[email protected]

Former Graduate Students

Maddie McCutcheon

Current Position:

[email protected]
Wes Neely
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Texas State University

[email protected]
Felix Thalén

Current Position:

[email protected]
Rebecca Varney

Current Position:
Assistant Professor,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[email protected]
Meghan Yap-Chiongco

Current Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen
[email protected]

Former Undergraduate Researchers

  • Caroline Bond (graduated spring 2021) - Biodiveristy and evolution of the solenogaster mollusc family Gymnomeniidae
  • Justin Cox (graduated spring 2019) - Population genetics of the hemi-pelagic Antarctic sea cucumber Peniagone using DNA barcoding
  • Ava Deas - Antarctic invertebrate biodiversity
  • Maddie Brewster (graduated spring 2019) - Biodiversity of deep-sea Icelandic invertebrates
  • Katie Gill (graduated spring 2018) - Biodiversity of Icelandic aplacophoran molluscs
  • Josh Goble (graduated fall 2018) - DNA barcoding of Icelandic aplacophoran molluscs; Honors Thesis
  • Tessa Hawkins (graduated spring 2017) - Biodiveristy of Wirenia (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Solenogastres)
  • Megan Joos - Systematics of Scaphopoda
  • Elizabeth Kantzler (graduated spring 2019); Mitogenomics of deep-sea Icelandic Euphrosindiae
  • Lainy Lee (graduated summer 2016) - Morphology and population genetics of deep-sea Icelandic annelids using scanning electron microscopy and DNA barcoding
  • Emily Pabst (graduated spring 2019) - Phylogenomics of Nudipleura (Nudibranchia + Pleurobranchomorpha; Mollusca, Gastropoda); Phylogenomics of Mollusca using transcriptome and ultraconserved element (UCE) data; Publication
  • Ryan Partain (graduated fall 2018) - Description of a new species of Wirenia (Mollusca, Solenogastres) from New Zealand
  • Gabe Penot (graduated fall 2023)
  • Carter Pruett (graduated spring 2020) - Biodiversity of Alabama freshwater mussels in the genus Amblema
  • Rayne Riden (graduated spring 2016) - Biodiversity of deep-sea aplacophoran molluscs from New Zealand and Iceland
  • Nathanael Rohlwing (graduated fall 2023)
  • Jamie Sarmiento - Molecular characterization of Levisunguis subaequalis Curran, Overstreet, Collins, & Benz, 2014 (Maxillopoda: Pentastomida) from novel host species
  • Morgann Smith (graduated spring 2020) - Biodiversity of deep-sea Icelandic invertebrates
  • Karsyn Whitmann (graduated summer 2016) - Morphology and population genetics of deep-sea Icelandic annelids using scanning electron microscopy and DNA barcoding