My lab has research opportunities for motivated students. Students in the Ober lab learn techniques ranging from DNA isolation and amplification, to cloning, to sequence editing/analysis and bioinformatics.  In addition to lab work, past students have gone on summer field expeditions to collect beetles for our research.

Ober Lab Students

Frank Spano Project:  Biogeography of Pseudanophthalmus robustus group

Erin Kinney Project: New Pseudanophthalmus species

Victoria Attaya Project:  Honey bee hygenic behavior

Jake Sbarbaro Project:  Biogeography of Pseudanophthalmus robustus group 

Gabriel Gabro, Project: Molecuar phylogeography of cave beetles

Thomas Kalantzakos,  Project: Opsin molecular evolution in blind beetles

Anthony Criscitiello,  Project: Changes in larval pheromones in physiologically stressed honey bees

Mary Patrice Hamilton, Project: Self-medication in honey bees

Cailee Dean, Project: Climate change and evolution in Sky Island beetles

Andrew Sullivan, Project: Molecuar phylogeography of cave beetles

Alex Carlson, Project: Molecuar phylogeography of cave beetles

Lucas Casagrande, Project: Molecuar phylogeography of cave beetles

Sean Carey, Project: Population structure of Sky Island Scaphinotus petersi

Michael McGuire, Project: Tribolium sna expression and function

Ryan Judy, Project : Population structure of Sky Island Scaphinotus petersi

Craig Connolly,  Project: Morphometrics in Sky Island Scaphinotus petersi

Michael Pratt,  Project: Population structure of Sky Island Scaphinotus petersi

Monique Gallant, Project: Embryonic fate mapping in Tribolium casteneum

Michael Tedaldi,  Project: Slave-making ants, Ectatomma ruidum, microsatellites

Andrea Everheart, Project: Central Massachusetts Insect Biodiversity

Caitlin Griffin, Project: Tribolium sna expression and function

Thomas Heider,  Project: Uncovering molecular signatures of rapid evolutionary radiations

Brian Hedrickson,  Project: Tribolium gbb embryonic expression and function

Abigail Ferrierri,  Project: Population structure of Sky Island Scaphinotus petersi

Brian Matthews,  Project: Molecular systematics of carabid beetles

Sonia Kuhn, Project: Population structure of Sky Island Scaphinotus petersi

Krunal Patel,  Project: Body axis and appendage development in Tribolium casteneum