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Principal Investigator


Postdoctoral Associates

  • Dr. Sam Beshers (visiting lecturer)
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  • Dr. Axel Brockmann (postdoc. research assoc.)
  • Dr. Miguel Corona (postdoc. research assoc.)
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  • Dr. Adrienne Moran (postdoc. research assoc.)
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  • Dr. Moushumi Sen Sarma (postdoc. research assoc.)
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Lab Personnel
  • Dr. Tom Newman (research asst. prof./ lab manager)
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  • Karen Pruiett (bee research specialist)
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Graduate Students
  • Seth Ament (Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience)
  • Nyla Ismail (Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience)
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  • Sophia Liang (Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience)
  • Xu Ling (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science)
  • Silvia Remolina (Ph.D. candidate, Animal Biology)
  • Amy Toth (Ph.D. candidate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
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  • Rodrigo Velarde (Ph.D. candidate,  Entomology)
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  • Ying Wang (PhD. candidate, Cell & Structural Biology, co-advised by Prof. Craig Mizzen)

Undergraduate Research Assistants
  • Linda Qi
  • Bijal Shah
Former Members
  • Dr. Christina Grozinger (postdoc. research assoc., -2004)--Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
  • Dr. Charlie Whitfield (postdoc. research assoc., -2004)--Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Dr. Yehuda Ben-Shahar (grad. student and postdoc. research assoc., 1996-2003)--Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Iowa
  • Dr. Andrew Barron (postdoc. research assoc., 2000-2003)--Postdoctoral Research Associate, Austrailian National Research University
  • Dr. Michelle Elekonich (postdoc. research assoc., 1997-2002)--Assistant Professor, UNLV
  • Dr. David Schulz (Ph.D. Entomology 2001)--Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
  • Dr. Guy Bloch (postdoc. research assoc., 1997-2001)--Senior Lecturer, Jerusalem University
  • Dr. Joseph Sullivan (Ph.D. Entomology, 2001)--Medical Student, Loyola University
  • Dr. Elizabeth Capaldi (postdoc. research assoc., 1996-2000)--Assistant Professor, Bucknell University
  • Dr. Christine Wagener-Hulme (Ph.D. Entomology, 2000)--Lt. Colonel, USAF
  • Dr. Dan Toma (Ph.D. Ecology, Ethology, Evolution 1999)--Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA
  • Dr. Sarah Farris (Ph.D. Entomology, 1999)--Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
  • Dr. Zachary Huang (postdoc. research assoc., 1990-1993; research assoc., 1993-1998)--Associate Professor, Michigan State University
  • Maria Vermiglio (M.S. Biology 1998)--Teacher, Maine East High School, Park Ridge, IL
  • Dr. Tugrul Giray (Ph.D. Entomology 1997)--Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico
  • Laura Heuser (M.S. Entomology 1996)--Biology teacher, Milwaukee, WI
  • Dr. Steve Trumbo (postdoc. research assoc., 1992-1995)--Associate Professor, University of Connecticut Waterbury Campus
  • Dr. Ginger Withers (Ph.D. Neuroscience 1994)--Assistant Professor, Whitman College
  • Dr. Sean Collins (M.S. Entomology 1994)--Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ohio State University
Updated 08/19/05