People
Mariana Mateos
Ph.D. (Rutgers, 2002)
Associate Professor
Email: mmateos@tamu.edu
https://twitter.com/Mateos_Lab
Graduate students
Alanna Noland
(EEB PhD student since Fall 2020)
image from https://twitter.com/Shannondjh/photo
Shannon Harris
(EEB PhD student beginning Fall 2022)
Undergraduate students
Zoe Hathcoat
Pablo Mantilla
Ozair Habib
Thuy Nguyen
Rosa-Isela Jimenez
Chanwoo Kim
Lab Alumni
Paul Ramirez (MSc 2016-2018; link to thesis, GoogleScholar)
former lab undergraduate (leader of our Aggie Research Scholar team Summer 2014)
Currently PhD candidate at Univ of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
Victor Higareda 2016-2021 (visiting PhD Student Fall 2018):
(co-advised with Dr. Esperanza Martinez-Romero @ Center for Genomic Sciences-UNAM, Mexico)
Renato La Torre
(visiting undergraduate intern 2020)
Univ. San Marcos, Lima, Peru
link to EIS virtual poster 2020 "Effect of Wasp Parasitism on the Bacterial Densities in the Spiroplasma‐ Drosophila melanogaster Symbiosis"
Humberto Martinez, PhD: Endosymbionts of Anastrepha fruit flies, and evolutionary ecology of the Drosophila-Spiroplasma association, Spiroplasma genomics
Currently faculty member @ Univ. Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Mexico
spirowol at gmail.com
Nadisha Silva, PhD: population dynamics and functional genomics of Spiroplasma infection in Drosophila
Jialei Xie, PhD: effects of Spiroplasma infection on parasitoid wasp success
previously postdoc at Skare Lab (TAMU Health Science Center
currently postdoc at UC San Diego
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FzmvzQgAAAAJ&hl=en
Thuy Nguyen (2022; BICH)
Jasmine Escobar (2022; ZOOL)
Andrew Tijerina (2022; GENE)
Sebastian Alves (2021; GENE)
Hailey Binkley (WFSC)
Andrea Miranda-Paez (WFSC): graduated Dec 2020; began M.Sc. at Auburn Spr. 21. Recipient of Outstanding Masters Student Award 2022
Josephine Starnes (ENTO)
Sujay Singh (BIOL): graduated Spring 2020; begins graduate school at Washington State University in Fall 22
Daniela Mercado (WFSC)
Savannah Bogard (Environmental Studies)
Diandra Lombard (GENE): graduated Spring 2019
Anika Stankov (BIMS): started graduate studies in Immunology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Fall 2019
Emile Fierro (ENTO): began PhD studies in Animal Science at Cornell in 2021
Haley Bivins (GENE)
Nicholas Martinez (GENE)
Gretta Brong (GENE)
Sarah Gheida (WFSC)
Alejandra Ibarra (BESC)
Jasmin Ferreira (BESC)
Brandy Chellete
Jack Harling
Willow McGuane
Damaris Farias
Lorena Interiano: MSc studies in Environmental Engineering at TAMU Kingsville
Katharina Moeller
Michael Liston
Brittany Witt
Kellie Nguyen
Mildred Wong
Caitlyn Winter: multiple projects on Spiroplasma protection against wasps
Fall 2014: began working at Last Chance Forever
2019: research assistant at University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio
Lauryn Winter: multiple projects on Spiroplasma protection against wasps
Fall 2014: began working at Last Chance Forever
2019: research assistant at University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio
Valeria Galvan
Travis Bishop
Alyssa Domingue
Max Goulas
Drew Pendleton
John Gonzalez
Vojtech Tichavsky: Spiroplasma protection against wasps
Laura Carlton: Spiroplasma protection against wasps
Young Zheng: Spiroplasma protection against wasps
(Beginning Fall 2013: attending graduate school at Texas A&M Professional Biotechnology Program)
Elizabeth Pawelek: Spiroplasma protection against wasps
Grecia Sanchez: Spiroplasma protection against wasps
John Lewis: Understanding aspects of the Spiroplasma male killing mechanism (became technical assistant at Hu lab)
Sara Butler: Spiroplasma protection against wasps
Beginning Fall 2013: attended Lewis and Clark Law School; Environmental and Animal Rights Law
Currently, Law Clerk at White & Shepherd, LLP
Maria Mendoza: Optimizing conditions for lab population experiments
(obtained M.Sc. at Texas A&M, Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Gatlin Lab)
Lacie Güenther: population dynamics of Spiroplasma infection in Drosophila
Mandy Haltom: fitness consequences of Spiroplasma infection
2011-2016 PhD at UTHSC-Houston/MD Anderson Cancer Center, Program in Genes and Development)
Hilary Pinkerton: transmission efficiency of Spiroplasma
Nimisha Jacobs
Amanda Martinez: Proteomics of Spiroplasma infection in Drosophila
(Beginning 2010: veterinary student at Texas A&M)
Sherene Sharath: effects of Spiroplasma infection on parasitoid wasp success
Zena Matlock: Proteomics of Spiroplasma infection in Drosophila
Bethany Tiner: fitness consequences of Spiroplasma infection on D. hydei
2011-2016 PhD at University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston; Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Chopra lab
Currently staff at Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core, Baylor College of Medicine
Mary Heath fitness consequences of Spiroplasma infection on D. hydei