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| Graduate Student: Cam |
Cammy and his little friend
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Dr. Cameron Siler |
Cameron was awarded his doctorate in late 2011. You can follow his ongoing conservation outreach activities on PhilBREO Lifedesks). |
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| Graduate Student: Jeet |
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Dr. Jeet Sukumaran |
Jeet defended his dissertation (Bayesian approaches to statistical phylogeographic model selection) in early 2012. He is now based at NESCent for a three year postdoc. Word around is: he already has two new cats, "Monte" and "Carlo" |
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| Postdoctoral Researcher: Dave |
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Dr. Dave Blackburn |
Dave worked at KU on evolutionary biology of amphibians, principally in Africa. He left us in the summer of 2011 to start his new position as curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences. |
| Phone # 785-864-4556 |
| E-mail: blackburn at ku.edu |
| Dave's webpage |
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| Visiting scholar: Tess |
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Marites Bonachita, a Ph.D. candidate from Mindanao State University-Iligan worked with us on phylogeography and conservation genetics of Mindanao Island river toads, genus Ansonia... |
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| Former Graduate Student: Jake |
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Dr. Jake Esselstyn |
Our first Ph.D. graduate, former KU student Jake Esselstyn works on biogeography of small mammals in SE Asia. He has just departed for an NSF international Programs Postdoctoral position at the University of Indonesia where he'll be working with our colleague Jatna Supriatna; a year later he will join Ben Evans' lab at McMaster University (Toronto). |
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| Jake's webpage |
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| Forner Undergraduate Researcher: Liz |
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Liz Lusher |
Liz is a recent graduate who spent the last several years helping catalog the recently acquired Powell collection...and just about everything else that came through KU Herpetology during her tenure. |
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| Undergraduate Researcher: Brian |
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Brian Oberheide |
"Brain" Oberheide was a undergraduate senior who worked with us incorporating the Powell collection in to KU's holdings. |
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| Former Undergraduate Researcher: Brenna |
 Brenna makes champions for breakfast
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Brenna Barger |
Brenna worked with us on phylogeny and species boundaries in the Ranna everetti complex of Philippine stream frogs. She's currently in vet school and following the dog show circut around the country... |
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| Former Undergraduate Researcher: Sophia |
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Sophia Reim |
Saint Sophia digitized our entire collection of anuran mating calls. Sophia topped off her undergrad education at KU with a trip to the tropics to work with Mahmood Sasa on monitoring amphibian populations in Costa Rica's dry forests. |
| Former Undergraduate Researcher: Joey |
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Joey Brown |
Joey is a undergraduate who worked with us on a variety of systematic projects. We saw him last in the Philippine a year ago...he's been travelling the world ever since. |
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| Former Undergraduate Researcher: Paul |
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Paul Ingram |
Paul worked with us on Kansas herp surveys as part of the Biodiversity Institute's EPSCoR project. He caught this harmless little snake in his back yard near campus |
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| Former Undergraduate Researcher: John |
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John Giles |
John worked with us on scincid lizard systematics and taxonomy. He has now moved on to greener pastures and a project involving modelling the distribution of reptiles with feathers. |
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Kyle Hesed |
Kyle worked with us on phylogeography and species boundaries within a complex of skinks from the Philippines. He is the recipient of many academic honors and distinctions, including the LSOW award. |
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Julie Martindale |
Julie worked with us on a wide variety of sequencing projects. She and Kyle just graduated and left us this summer. We're going to miss those guys....
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| Former Research Assistant |
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Katie Renwick |
Katie is a recent graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University, who worked with us through the NSF-funded PREP program. She was involved in variety of sequencing projects and it's clear that she has a thing for hamster-sized dogs. |
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Lynn McGreevy |
After graduating from Haskell Indian Nations University, Lynn worked with us through the NSF-funded PREP program. Lynn worked on a Sulawesi swamp frog phylogeography project and had the highest cycle sequencing success rate of anyone in the lab. She left us for greener pastures in Alaska...and our Big Dye fees have skyrocketted ever since. |
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| Former Undergraduate Researcher/Assistant |
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Voytek Roman Adam Slowik |
Voytek was a KU undergraduate senior who worked with us on Sulawesi stream frog phylogeography and the genetics of cryptic speciation. A data entry extraordinaire, Voytek plays jazz flute on the weekends to supplement his paltry current KU Medical School stipend.
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Michael Garfield |
Scientific illustrator extraordinaire, Michael is now in a more ethereal form, referred to by some as "living in Colorado." But he is still working with us on technical illustrations for a large number of new species of amphibians and reptiles from SE Asia. |
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