PEOPLE

PEOPLE

PI: Dr. Michael S. Caterino

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Ernesto Recuero Gil - Diversity and evolution of leaf-litter arthropods of Southern Appalachia.

Graduate students

Curt Harden (M.S.) - systematics and population genetics of Appalachian Anillini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Jenna Crowder (M.S.) - innovations in non-lethal arthropod sampling

Patricia Wooden (Ph.D.) - biogeography and evolution of Trechus ground beetles (Carabidae)

Adam Haberski (Ph.D.) - systematics and biogeography of Lathrobium rove beetles (Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

Undergraduate assistants

Mary Atieh - specimen photography and DNA extraction

Hannah Skinner - specimen photography and DNA extraction

Grace Arnold - specimen photography and DNA extraction

Lab Alumni

Frank E. Etzler - Montana Department of Agriculture

Dr. Shelley Myers - Ecoquest, New Zealand

Dr. Sofia Muñoz-Tobar - biogeography of beetles in Andean Páramo (Ph.D. 2018)

Dr. Anthony Deczynski - chrysomelid systematics, especially Alticinae (Ph.D. 2019)

Dr. Laura Vásquez-Vélez - systematics of Pselaphine Staphylinidae (Ph.D. 2020)

Roy Kucuk - gut microbiomes of Scarabaeidae (M.S. 2019)

Ashley Phillips - specimen photography and DNA extraction (graduated 2020)

Nathan Arey - cryptic diversity of litter-inhabiting micro-Hymenoptera (now at LSU for graduate work)