People
CURRENT STUDENTS
Rodolfo da Silva Probst
Contact: probstrodolfo (at) gmail.com
Office: (801) 587 - 5683
2016- PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, School of Biological Sciences – University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
2013-2015 M.S. in Systematics, Animal Taxonomy and Biodiversity. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2008-2012 B.Sc. in Biology, with a specialization in Marine Biology. Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” – Campus do Litoral Paulista (UNESP-CLP), São Vicente, SP, Brazil.
Elaine Tan
Contact: e.n.tan@utah.edu
Office: (801) 587 - 5683
2020- PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Department of Biology – University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
2018-2020 Lab Assistant and Research Affiliate at Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2014-2018 B.Sc. in Ecology and Evolution, with a minor in Professional Writing. Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tobias Hays
Contact: toby.g.hays@gmail.com
2018-2022 Undergraduate student and researcher
at the University of Utah in the School of Biological Sciences.
Megan Duval
Contact: u0983674@utah.edu
2021-2025 Undergraduate student and researcher at the University of Utah in the School of Biological Sciences.
LAB ALUMNI
Michael G. Branstetter
Contact: mgbranstetter@gmail.com
Office: (801) 581-6609
Ph.D. University of California, Davis (2012)
B.Sc. The Evergreen State College (2005)
2012-2014 Buck Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
2015-2017 Post-doc in Longino lab
Currently Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
Michael's C.V.
Mac Pierce
Contact: mac25252007@gmail.com
Mac was an undergrad lab assistant and participated in the 2015 ADMAC field sampling in Costa Rica.
Hanna Kim
Contact: hanna.kim@utah.edu
Hanna was a lab assistant, working on morphometrics of the genus Pheidole and involved in DNA library preparation for the ADMAC project.
Spencer Monett
Contact: s.g.monnet@gmail.com
Spencer worked as a lab assistant, providing lots of help sorting ants from leaf litter samples. He was also involved in DNA extraction and library preparation, associated with the ADMAC project.
Alex Gregorcy
Contact: alex.gregorcy@gmail.com
Alex became interested in ants and entomology after taking a Costa Rica field class with Jack Longino. He helped sort ants from a conservation-oriented trip in Guyana that Michael Branstetter participated in.
Theodore P. Sumnicht
Contact: sumnichtT@gmail.com
M.S. University of Arkansas, Little Rock (2012)
B.S. University of California, Davis (2009)
Brendon E. Boudinot
Contact: boudinotb@gmail.com
B.S. Evergreen State College, WA (2012)
An avid mountain biker and metal-head, Brendon is one of the few myrmecologists to specialize in male ant morphology and taxonomy, although his research interests also span molecular systematics and functional morphology. His major current project is to produce male-based keys and diagnoses to all the ant genera of Central America. He worked with Dr. Longino since an undergraduate at Evergreen, and was a field assistant for the LLAMA project in 2010 (Honduras). He was a hyper-productive lab tech in the Longino lab at University of Utah, 2012-2013, and has started a PhD program with Phil Ward at UC Davis.
