Current Lab Members

Douglas R. Taylor, Professor and Chair, email

Steve Keller email - Steve is working on the genetics and evolution of invasive species in their introduced ranges.

Dexter Sowell email - Dexter is working on invasive species, and the characteristics of successful versus failed invasions.
Dan Sloan email - Dan is studying the consequences of extreme mutation rate variation in plant mitochondrial genomes.
Quinn McFrederick email - Quinn is studying coevolution between halictid bees and their nematode symbionts.
Peter Fields email - Peter is interested in the evolution of individuality, sex and/or systems of cooperation and conflict

Christina Jenkins email - Christina is working on molecular population genetics of invasive species.
Tara Beth Poole email - Tara Beth is working with Steve Keller on the evolutionary history of biological invasions.
Jessica Wignall email - Jessica is working with Quinn McFrederick on how host social structure influences symbiont gene flow.

Camille Barr email - Camille worked as an NSF post-doctoral colleague on mitochondrial genome evolution in Silene. She is currently in a post-doctoral postion at the University of Montana.
Steve Freedberg email - Steve worked as an NSF post-doctoral colleague on models of evolution under both genetic and cultural inheritance. He has moved on to a faculty position at St. Olaf college.
Maurine Neiman email - Maurine worked as a post-doctoral colleague on Muller’s ratchet and recombination in organelle genomes. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa and is accepting graduate students
Pär K. Ingvarsson - Pär (a.k.a.) Pelle worked as a post-doctoral colleague on the molecular evolution of selfish genes in Silene, among other things. He has moved on to a faculty position in Sweden and is accepting graduate students.
Lisa Horth - Lisa worked on the genetics of cytoplasmic male sterility in plants and the molecular evolution of melanism in fish. She is an assistant professor at Old Dominion University.
Sheri Church, Email - Actually, Sheri was a post-doc with Loren Riesberg at Indiana University, but she still spent much of her time here. Sheri worked on the molecular evolution and adaptive radiation of Houstonia in North America and genomic approaches to speciation in sunflowers. Sheri now has a Faculty Position at George Washington University.

Leslie Rissler - Leslie is a former Ph.D. student who worked on the phylogeography of Desmognathus salamanders. She is an NSF Bioinformatics post-doctoral fellow with David Wake and Craig Moritz at UC Berkeley. She has recently accepted a faculty position at the University of Alabama.
Sheri Church - Sheri is a former Ph.D. student who worked on the molecular evolution of North American Houstonia. She was an NSF bioinformatics post-doctoral fellow with Loren Riesberg at Indiana University working on the genomics of speciation in sunflowers. Sheri now has a Faculty Position at George Washington University.
Gretchen Arnold - Gretchen was an M.S. student that worked on inbreeding effects on small populations in Silene. She works for the Virginia Insititute for Marine Sciences.
Kevin Stilwell - Kevin is a high school biology teacher in Southwest Virginia, who participated in the Mountain Lake Masters program. He has returned to the classroom.

Ellen McRae is graduate student with Daniel Hartl at Harvard University.
Whit Farnum is working as a tech at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard .
Rachel Prunier, Rachel is an graduate student at the University of Connecticut.
Elizabeth Ostrowski is a graduate student with Rich Lenski at Michigan State.
Meaghan Saur got her masters from Indiana University and is now working in Indiana.
Erika Adams is a graduate student with Lynne Houck at Oregon State Univeristy.
Joel Kniskern is a graduate student with Mark Rausher at Duke University.
David Fontana went on to Yale Law School, then Oxford.
Kathrine Ross became a production assistant in Hollywood, and is now studying biostatistics

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