Principal investigator
Kevin M. Kocot, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral researchers
M. Carmen Cobo Llovo, Ph.D. |
Graduate students
Emily McLaughlin
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Chandler Olson
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Nickellaus (Nick) Roberts |
Meghan Yap-Chiongco
(she/her)
Ph.D. student Evolution, development, and genomics aplacophoran molluscs mkyapchiongco[at]crimson.ua.edu https://mkyapchiongco.people.ua.edu/ |
Technician
Kendra Abbott
(she/her)
Biodiversity, conservation, genetics, eDNA, and genomics of insects (especially Odonata). https://museums.ua.edu/people/kendra-abbott/ https://www.abbottnature.com/about/ |
Undergraduate students
Ava Deas
Antarctic invertebrate biodiversity
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Will Farris
Aplacophoran mollusc biodiversity and systematics
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Reed Fowler
Population genetics of Paramphinome jeffreysii and systematics of Amphinomida
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Anna-Cae Fuller
Antarctic invertebrate biodiversity
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Gabriel Penot
Antarctic invertebrate biodiversity
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Kaitlyn Via
Biodiversity of aplacophoran molluscs from the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
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Past lab members
Former Graduate Students & Postdocs
Rebecca Varney
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Maddie McCutcheon
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Felix Thalén
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Franzi Bergmeier
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(she/her)
Ph.D. student (graduated spring 2021) Genomic basis of iron biomineralization in the chiton radula Google Scholar Now: Postdoctoral researcher at UCSB in the Oakley lab. |
(she/her)
M.S. student (graduated summer 2020) Biodiversity of deep-sea aplacophoran molluscs from New Zealand and phylogeny of Caudofoveata |
(she/her)
Mitogenomics of Solenogastres (Mollusca) |
Undergraduate Alumni
(in no particular order)
Caroline Bond
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Morgann Smith
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Carter Pruett
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Justin Cox
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Undergraduate (graduated spring 2021)
Biodiveristy and evolution of the solenogaster mollusc family Gymnomeniidae |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2020)
Biodiversity of deep-sea Icelandic invertebrates |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2020)
Biodiversity of Alabama freshwater mussels. Bioinformatics |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2019)
Population genetics of the hemi-pelagic Antarctic sea cucumber Peniagone using DNA barcoding |
Emily Pabst
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Elizabeth Kantzler
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Katie Gill
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Josh Goble
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Ryan Partain
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Undergraduate (graduated spring 2019)
Phylogenomics of Mollusca using transcriptome and ultraconserved element (UCE) data Publication |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2019)
Mitogenomics of deep-sea Icelandic Euphrosindiae |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2018)
Biodiversity of Icelandic aplacophoran molluscs |
Undergradaute (graduated fall 2018)
Description of a new species of Wirenia (Mollusca, Solenogastres) from New Zealand |
Tessa Hawkins
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Lainy Lee
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Karsyn Whitman
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Rayne Riden
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Maddie Brewster |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2017)
Biodiveristy of Wirenia (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Solenogastres) |
Undergraduate (graduated summer 2016)
Morphology and population genetics of deep-sea Icelandic annelids using scanning electron microscopy and DNA barcoding |
Undergraduate (graduated summer 2016)
Morphology and population genetics of deep-sea Icelandic annelids using scanning electron microscopy and DNA barcoding |
Undergraduate (graduated spring 2016)
Biodiversity of deep-sea aplacophoran molluscs from New Zealand and Iceland |
Undergraduate
Biodiversity of deep-sea Icelandic invertebrates |