Brett Butler --- Co-phylogeography of snakes at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Current Doctoral and Master's Students
Yucheol Shin --- Island colonization and genomic and morphological adaptations among Korean snakes
Zelie Anner --- Processes of speciation through hyrbid zones in ratsnakes using whole genomes.
Kira Welsh --- Whole genome phylogeography milksnakes.
Former Master's, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral Students
Postdocs
Jeff Weinell --- Genomic adaptations and speciation among squamates of the Brazilian Open Formations. Assistant professor at Austin Peay State University.
Sean Harrington --- Comparative phylogeography and whole genomics of North American Snakes. Bionformation at the University of Wyoming.
Ariadna Morales --- Convergent evolution in Myotis bats using whole genomes. Assistant professor at the City College of New York.
Phillip Skipwith --- Anatomical diversification in squamates. Assistant professor at University of Kentucky.
Marcelo Gehara --- Comparative phylogenetics, coalescent software development. Assistant professor at Rutgers University.
Doctoral Students
Leroy Nuñez --- Evolution of the Diverse North American Gartersnakes, Watersnakes, and Allies (Natricidae: Thamnophiini). Postdoc Stony Brook University.
Brianna Mims --- Phylogenomics and evolution of Leptodeirini.
Dylan DeBaun --- Deep time reticulation in snakes using whole genomes. Postdoc at Princeton University.
Sara Ruane --- Snake evolution and ecology. Curator of Herpetology, Field Museum of Natural History.
Alex Pyron --- Reptile and amphibian diversification. Professor at the George Washington University
Arianna Kuhn --- Comparative phylogeography of the Malagasy Gemsnakes. Curator of Herpetology at the INHS.
Ed Myers --- Comparative phylogeography of North American snakes and venom evolution.
Tim Guiher --- Comparative molecular phylogeography and demography within New World venomous snakes of the genus Agkistrodon.
Xin Chen --- Adaptive radiation in ratsnakes.
Frank Fontanella --- Phylogeography of the ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus). Professor at the University of West Georgia.
Master's Students
Jamie Burgoon --- Speciation in Coluber contrictor at the Florida Peninsula and Continental US Connection.
Margaret O’Brien --- (MS Student, Columbia, co-advised w/Nancy Simmons). Hibernation in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) did not evolve through positive selection of leptin.