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Undergraduate Researchers
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Former Postdoctoral Researchers & Fellows
Dr. Carmen Cobo Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France |
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Former Graduate Students
Maddie McCutcheon Current Position: Teacher, South Oldham High School in Crestwood, KY |
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Dr. Rebecca Varney Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Dr. Meghan Yap-Chiongco Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen |
Former Undergraduate Researchers
- Rowan Batts (graduated May 2023) - Population genetics of Icelandic Euphrosinidae (Annelida: Amphinomida); Publication: Batts, R.A., Whitman, K.N., Meißner, K. and Kocot, K.M., 2022. Biodiversity and Phylogeny of North Atlantic Euphrosinidae (Annelida). Diversity, 14(11), p.996.
- 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
- Reed Fowler (graduated May 2025) - Population genetics of Paramphinome jeffreysii (Annelida: Amphinomida) from Icelandic waters
- Katie Gill (graduated spring 2018) - Biodiversity of Icelandic aplacophoran molluscs
- Michael Gilmore - Assessment of genome assemblies from microscopic metazoans generated using multiple displacement amplification (MDA); Publication: Roberts, N.G., Gilmore, M.J., Struck, T.H. and Kocot, K.M., 2024. Multiple displacement amplification facilitates SMRT sequencing of microscopic animals and the genome of the Gastrotrich Lepidodermella squamata (Dujardin 1841). Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(12), p.evae254.
- 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
- Madison LeRoy - Population genetics of Paramphinome jeffreysii (Annelida: Amphinomida) from Icelandic waters
- Emily Pabst (graduated spring 2019) - Phylogenomics of Nudipleura (Nudibranchia + Pleurobranchomorpha; Mollusca, Gastropoda); Phylogenomics of Mollusca using transcriptome and ultraconserved element (UCE) data; Publication: Pabst, E.A. and Kocot, K.M., 2018. Phylogenomics confirms monophyly of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 84(3), pp.259-265.Pabst, E.A. and Kocot, K.M., 2018. Phylogenomics confirms monophyly of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 84(3), pp.259-265.
- Ryan Partain (graduated fall 2018) - Description of a new species of Wirenia (Mollusca, Solenogastres) from New Zealand
- Gabe Penot (graduated fall 2023) - Mitogenomics of fireworms (Annelida: Amphinomida)
- 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) - Histology of Aplacophora; DNA barcoding of Arion slugs
- Jamie Sarmiento - Molecular characterization of Levisunguis subaequalis Curran, Overstreet, Collins, & Benz, 2014 (Maxillopoda: Pentastomida) from novel host species; Publication: Neely, W.J., Sarmiento, J.M., Garner, K.L., Doggett, T.S., Cammarata, C.A., Dronen, N.O. and Kocot, K.M., 2025. New Records of Levisunguis Subaequalis (maxillopoda: Pentastomida) Infecting Multiple Turtle Species across Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist, 69(2), pp.1-8.
- 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. Publication; Batts, R.A., Whitman, K.N., Meißner, K. and Kocot, K.M., 2022. Biodiversity and Phylogeny of North Atlantic Euphrosinidae (Annelida). Diversity, 14(11), p.996.
