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Dr. Russ Minton
Department of Biology
University of Louisiana at Monroe
700 University Avenue
Monroe, LA 71209-0520 USA
318.342.1795
minton@ulm.edu

247days until
I turn 40.

The Minton Laboratory @ University of Louisiana at Monroe


Photo: Skyline Drive in Virginia, May 2011

Welcome to the website of Dr. Russ Minton at ULM. Originally from Racine, WI, I have spent almost two decades bouncing between the north and the south.  Each move takes me a little less north and little further south, though I've been here longer than anywhere but home.  I’m an only child with a great partner and a duck that gets more press than either of us combined.

I study snails, which is good because they are just my speed and match my field collecting skill.  I enjoy Japanese monster movies, college football, cooking, and mucking around at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge.  I don’t miss snow, though I’m not a fan of the humidity around here.  You will normally find me in my office being a technogeek or at home in symbiosis with my couch.

Please feel to look around and learn about me, my research, my students, and my always exciting life in general.  If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact me by email or phone call.  Thanks for your interest.

Photo above: Anguispira alternata from BBLNWR. The species was listed as extirpated until we 'rediscovered' it during a recent land snail survey.

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  • Team stepchild wins at student research symposium Team Torsion stepchild Charles Creech won a first place medal at this year's ULM Student Research Symposium, held April 25. While technically a student of Dr. Debra Jackson's ...
    Posted Apr 30, 2012 6:44 PM by Russell Minton
  • Winner winner chicken dinner Yesterday, Team Torsion's senior graduate student Chris Paight took home a first place victory at the annual Louisiana Academy of Sciences meeting held at LSU-Alexandria. Chris's talk ...
    Posted Mar 4, 2012 3:31 PM by Russell Minton
  • Bayou Billionaire? Yours truly appeared for one whole second on the February 4, 2012 episode of "Bayou Billionaires" on CMT. The first part of the "Animal Magnetism" episode was filmed at Diamond ...
    Posted Feb 4, 2012 8:04 PM by Russell Minton
  • Coming Soon Team Torsion will welcome two new students for Spring 2012: Rachelle Amundson just completed her B.S. in Biology from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, where she worked for ...
    Posted Dec 6, 2011 9:19 PM by Russell Minton
  • Where are they now? Where do graduates from the lab go?Erin Basiger (MS 2011) is employed at an environmental consulting firm in Indiana.Casey Nolan (MS 2011 expected) started his doctoral program at ...
    Posted Sep 26, 2011 11:08 AM by Russell Minton
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