The Current Research Team

Here is the current lab team!.

Marissa Ohran

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 Fall 2021

Samantha Curnow

Working on...

Started Spring 2022

Remington Motte

Working on questions in evolutionary biology and learning comparative phylogenetic methods

Started Spring 2022

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