Current Lab Members
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Brandt Weary
Undergraduate
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Dr. Jong Kyun Park
Co-P.I.
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Linda Saunders
Undergraduate
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Dr. Tina Mendez
Project Collaborator
I’ve been enamored with insects since I was seven when a mass emergence of cicadas in my hometown filled our trees and our days with surround sound. As children, we collected the exuviae hanging on plants, and if we were
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Casey Hubble
Project Leader
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Dr. Ainsley Seago
Children's Book Illustrator
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Sameer Nayak
Undergraduate
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Dr. Aman Gill
Post-doc.
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Dr. Athula Attygalle
Co-P.I.
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Dr. Tanya Renner
Co-P.I.
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Dr. Wendy Moore
Co-P.I.
The Moore lab uses molecular genetic techniques and morphological methods to infer robust phylogenetic frameworks to identify and describe natural groups of terrestrial arthropods, to study their diversification and patterns of distribution, and to elucidate the ecological roles and the importance of key innovations that have significantly affected their evolutionary histories. Presently lab members are focusing efforts on lineages within the Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Myriapoda and Arachnida.