The Current Research Team

Here is the current lab team!

Olivia Frary

I’m working on a project to determine if the difference in genome size between homogametic and heterogametic individuals in a species contributes to the difference in lifespan between those individuals.

Started Spring 2023

Website here

Babs Jetton

Constructing Diptera phylogeny and investigation of Diptera karyotype evolution

Started Spring 2023

Haylee Beck

Survey of forensically relevant Diptera in Utah

Started Fall 2023

Marissa Ohran

Assembling and assessing problematic genomics (lots of heterochromatin!)

Started Fall 2021--Graduated Spring 2023

Website here

Samantha Curnow

Investigating genome size evolution in Drosophila species and its relation to temperature and climate variables.

Started Spring 2022

Remington Motte

Working on questions in evolutionary biology and learning comparative phylogenetic methods

Started Spring 2022

Website here

Audrey French

I'm currently working on identifying the chromosome shape variation and evolution in fruit flies. I'm currently studying biology and plan to go on and study genetics.

Research Alumni

Here are past researchers I have worked with.

Alli Konstantinov

Phylogenetic Trait Simulations

Texas A&M University Biology

Alex McGuane

miRNA qPCR and RNA prep

Texas A&M University Entomology

Michelle Jonika

Immature blow fly sex identification using qPCR

Texas A&M University Entomology/Genetics/Forensics

Elizabeth Piron

Genome size and underreplication estimates

Texas A&M University Entomology/Genetics

Renee Holmes

Genome size and underreplication estimates

Texas A&M University Entomology

Melissa Mynes

Genome size and underreplication estimates

Texas A&M University Entomology/Genetics

Margaret Garrett

Genome size and underreplication estimates

Texas A&M University Entomology/Genetics

Zoe Ward

Development of experiments for forensic entomology

Texas A&M University Entomology/Genetics

Anika Sharma

Fulbright Scholar investigating mRNA markers of developmentin Chrysomya rufifacies

Texas A&M University Entomology