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Anne Danielson-Francois
Anne Danielson-Francois
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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Michigan - Dearborn
danfranc (at) umich.edu
Lab Alum Jaclyn Mowry winning Second Place in the AAS 2026 student poster competition!
Daniel Acosta working on arthropods SURE 2026
Presenting at AAS 2026 in Lincoln, NE
2026 lab party!
2025 Summer of Leucauge research with Morgan Corely, Skyler Babbitt and Bree Clark
Alex Zaborski, Ximena Pantoja, Daniel Acosta, Katie Beaver, Danielle Harajli, Jordyn Burks, Skyler Babbitt at the lab party 2025!
2024 Hayden Allie, Alex Zaborski, Jordyn Burks, Yasmeen Aljabaishi
2024 Summer of Leucauge research with Hayden Allie, Shayma Aljabali, and Abe Abdul-Sater
2024 Restarting video research after the pandemic, Jaclyn Mowry and Jordan Valentine scoring videos
2023 summer of Leucauge research with Hayden Allie and Dalia Rabbah
Jordyn Burks studying arthropods with SURE 2023
Libby Moore by her insect biodiversity poster in 2022
Libby Moore sorting samples in the lab in 2021
Kaitlyn Tatro changing on of the malaise traps in 2020
Finally getting approval to continue field work during the pandemic, with Kaitlyn Tatro in 2020
Ulyana Malovana, Amber Rouillard, and Audrey Crews heading to the field in 2019
Ben Cole, Ulyana Malovana, Amber Rouillard, Audrey Crews, Youmna (Heidi)Gabr and Majd Faraj at the 2019 lab party
Ben Cole and Ulyana Malovana by their poster in 2019
Lab at ABS 2018 in Milwaukee
Kayla Clouse, Jennifer Zavalnitskaya, Kaitlyn Tatro and Majd Faraj at the AAS 2018 meeting in Ypsilanti we co-hosted with the fantastic Dr. Cara Shilington at EMU
Majd Faraj by his poster on Tetragnatha behavior in 2018 at AAS
Kaitlyn by her poster on pheromones in 2018 in AAS meetings
Jennifer Zavalnitskaya by her poster on spider eggs in 2018 in AAS
2017 Lab party!
2017 Lab party!
Alexis Dodson, Hdeal Alhadi, Jennifer Zavalnitskaya, Kaitlyn Tatro, Majd Faraj, Veronica Gerios, and Ekene Ezeokoli enjoying a lab party outdoors near the Natural Sciences Building
Animal Behavior Meeting
Animal Behavior Meeting
The lab at the ABS meetings in Toronto in 2017
Most fabulous spider tattoo I have EVER seen!
In the field
In the field
Alexis Dodson in the field marking and videotaping spiders
Alexis Dodson by her poster on prey density, mating behavior and OSR
Ekene Ezeokoli by his poster in insect biodiversity at ABS 2017
Veronica wins Honorable Mention for the Genesis undergraduate research award at ABS meetings in Toronto in 2017!
Field biologist extraordinaire, Charles Ford !
Nephila pilipes
Charles Ford talking about his pirate spiders at ICA in Taiwan
Charles Ford filming his pirate spiders
Yevhen Drobot with Tetragnatha spiders
Yevhen Drobot and Byron Cheng zapping spiders at Phoenix Labs in Ann Arbor
Kaitlyn Tatro and Veronica Gerios ready to hit the field!
Charles Ford, Liza Zimmerman and Myra Khan chilling out before the ABS meetings in New Mexico
Biovision Crew !
Jacob Boncher, Nate Dessert, Dustin Morabito, Joshua Morrison, Daniel Painter, and Molly Pohutski
2013 - Reuniting with Emma Chueh Hou at Taiwan ICA
2013 - Charles Ford on Green Island at Taiwan ICA
Portland meetings
Portland meetings
Sabah Gagnon, Charles Ford, Yevhen Drobot, Samaa Lutfi, and Samantha Michaels
Banquet 2011
Banquet 2011
Liza Zimmerman, Samaa Lutfi, me, Sabah Gagnon, Samantha Michaels, Charles Ford, TIna Chaalan, and Yevhen Drobot
2009 - Amneh Awad collecting spiders
2009 - Sabah Gagnon examining spider sperm
Emma Chueh Hou at the Big House!
The amazing Emma Chueh Hou in the field watching Nephila pilipes
Nanjen Lake, Taiwan
Nanjen Lake, Taiwan
My fantastic collaborator Dr. I-Min Tso of Tunghai University
Danielson-Francois lab
Danielson-Francois lab
In 2008, Sandy Lupfer, Samaa Lutfi, me, Amneh Awad, Nina Cole, Sabah Gagnon, and Naheed Rafiq with Nephila pilipes cages (Photo by Millard Berry)
Nina Cole catching and taking care of Nephila spiders in Taiwan; Nina Cole and Shelly Yi-Hsuan Tseng measuring spiders at Tunghai University, Taiwan
Nina and Shelly taking a break!
Nina and Joe Stude enjoying the local cuisine
Going on a hike!
Me and Emma Chueh Hou counting spider sperm in the Tso lab at Tunghai University
2026 Lab party
Lab party in
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