Project Personnel
Project Principal Investigators
Institutional Collaborators
Taxonomic Collaborators
Gonzalo Giribet (Arachnida, Myriapoda)
Harry Brailovsky (Hemiptera)
Zachary Falin (Coleoptera)
Steve Marshall (Diptera)
Michael Sharkey (Hymenoptera)
Graduate Students/Student Coordinators
Michael Branstetter (current)
Laura Sáenz Domínguez (current)
Jesús Luna Cozar (2007-2008)
Other Collaborators
Brian Fisher (Bioinformatics, Antweb)
Student Participants
Project Principal Investigators
John T. (Jack) Longino
E-mail: jacklongino@gmail.com
Department of Biology
257 S 1400 E
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical ants (Formicidae).
Robert S. (Bob) Anderson
E-mail: randerson@mus-nature.ca
Canadian Museum of Nature
P.O. Box 3443, Station D
Ottawa, ON. K1P 6P4 CANADA
Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of weevils (Cuculionidae).
P. S. (Phil) Ward
E-mail: psward@ucdavis.edu
Department of Entomology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616, USA
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/ward/
Research interests: Taxonomy and phylogeny of ants (Formicidae).
Institutional Collaborators
Jorge Leonel León Cortéz
E-mail: jleon@sclc.ecosur.mx
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
San Cristobal de las Casas
Chiapas, Mexico
Research interests: Lepidoptera biodiversity and systematics; conservation biology of fragmented habitats.
Jack Schuster
E-mail: jschuste@uvg.edu.gt
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Apartado 82
Guatemala GUATEMALA
Research interests: Biodiversity, systematics and evolution of Passalidae (Coleoptera).
Dr. José Manuel Mora Benavides
E-mail: jmora@zamorano.edu
Regional Biodiversity Institute
Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad
Pan-American School of Agriculture
Zamorano, Honduras
Dr. Oliver Schlein
E-mail: oschlein@zamorano.edu
Regional Biodiversity Institute
Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad
Pan-American School of Agriculture
Zamorano, Honduras
Jean-Michel Maes
E-mail: jmmaes@ibw.com.ni
Museo Entomologico
Leon, Nicaragua
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/termitero/nicaragua/MEL%20HOME%20PAGE.htm
Research interests: Biodiversity and systematics of insects.
Eric Van Den Berghe
E-mail: eric.vandenberghe@avemaria.edu.ni
Ave Maria University
San Marcos, Nicaragua
Research interests: Biodiversity and systematics of insects and orchids.
Taxonomic Collaborators
Gonzalo Giribet
E-mail: ggiribet@oeb.harvard.edu
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Research interests: Arachnida, Myriapoda.
Harry Brailovsky
E-mail: coreidae@ibiologia.unam.mx
Departamento de Zoología Instituto de Biología, U.N.A.M.
Circuito Exterior s/n
Ciudad Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacán
A.P. 70-233 México, Distrito Federal. C.P. 04510
Research interests: Hemiptera.
Zachary Falin
E-mail: ksem@ku.edu
Division of Entomology, KUNHM/BRC
Snow Entomological Collection
1501 Crestline Dr. Suite 140
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66049
Research interests: Coleoptera.
Steve Marshall
E-mail: samarsha@uoguelph.ca
Department of Environmental Biology
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1
Research interests: Diptera.
Michael Sharkey
E-mail: msharkey@uky.edu
Department of Entomology
S-225 Ag. Sci. North
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA
Research interests: Hymenoptera.
Graduate Students/Student Coordinators
Michael Branstetter
E-mail: mgbranstetter@ucdavis.edu
Department of Entomology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616, USA
Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical Stenamma (Formicidae).
With LLAMA 2007 to present.
Jesús (Chuy) Luna Cozar
E-mail: jluna@posgrado.ecosur.mx
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
San Cristóbal de las Casas
Chiapas, Mexico
Research interests: Taxonomy, systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of Apionidae, Curculionidae, and Bruchidae.
Featured researcher in March 2006 Curculio.
With LLAMA 2007 to 2008.
Laura Sáenz Domínguez
E-mail: laury.saenz@gmail.com
Escuela de Biología
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Research interests: Taxonomy, systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of Formicidae.
With LLAMA starting 2008.
Other Collaborators
Brian Fisher
E-mail: bfisher@calacademy.org
Entomology
California Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3009, USA
Research interests: Taxonomy of ants (Formicidae), Bioinformatics, Faunal Inventory.
2011 Student Participants from Nicaragua
2011 Student Participants from USA and Canada
2010 Student Participants from Honduras
2010 Student Participants from USA and Canada
2009 Student Participants from Guatemala
Upper left: Samanta Orellana, Universidad de San Carlos. Upper right: Diego Pons, Universidad del Valle. Lower right: Manuel Barrios, Universidad de San Carlos. Lower left: Cristián Beza, Universidad del Valle.
2009 Student Participants from USA and Canada
Upper left: Steven Bylsma, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. Upper right: Jennie Russ, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. Lower right: Theo Sumnicht, University of California, Davis, CA. Lower left: Crystal Vincent, Carleton University, Ottawa.
2008 ECOSUR Student Participants
Upper left: Maria Dina Estrada Marroquin. Upper center: Yensy María Recinos Aguilar. Upper right: Ubaldo Caballero. Lower left: Irma Dinorah Miss Barrera. Lower right: Eslin Obed Reyes De León.
2008 Evergreen Student Participants
Left to right: Brittany Broyles, D. J. Cox, Jesse McAlpine, Duke Brady (far right Jack Longino)