Postdocs
Eric Watson
Postdoc 2014-2020
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Ning Li
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Brad Foley
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Colin Rose
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Victoria Pritchard
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J. Scott Harrison
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David Carlon
Wrigley Postdoc 1999-2001
Now Director of Bowdoin Marine Laboratory and Professor, Bowdoin College
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Graduate Students
Murad Jah
M.A., 2022
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Ben Flanagan
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Nicole Adams
Ph.D. 2019
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Helen Bermudez Foley
Ph.D. 2017
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Barret Phillips
Ph.D. 2016
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Patrick Sun
Ph.D. 2016
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Wai Leong
M.Sc. 2013
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Lisa Handschumacher
M.Sc. 2010
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Tina Weier Oldham
M. Sc. 2009
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AnnMarie (Annie) Hwang
Ph.D. 2009
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Catherine Purcell
Ph.D. 2019
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Augustus Vogel
Ph.D. 2007
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Dennis Peterson
Ph.D. student 1999-2007
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Lab Technicians
Jane Pascar
Research Lab Technician, 2017-2018
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Shoshanna Kahne
Research Lab Technician, 2014-2015
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Shiven Chaudhry
Research Lab Technician, 2012-2013
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Daniel Rundle
Research Lab Technician, 2009-2010
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Sara Northrup
Research Lab Technician, 2003-2005
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Undergraduate Researchers
Mel Persell
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Dana Austria
Research on respiration rates in Tigriopus, 2019-2020
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Madeleine Becker
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Mi Rae Park
Research on phenotypic traits in cytonuclear hybrid lines of Tigriopus, 2018-19
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Manuel Morales
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Natasha Arief
Research on age-specific stress tolerance in Tigriopus, 2017-18
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Katie Jillson
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Peter Chen
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Emily Nixon
Research on BPA tolerance in Tigriopus, 2017
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Rocio Ramirez
Research on sex-specific longevity and fertility in Tigriopus, 2016-2017
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Tyler Schiffman
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Brandon So
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Lauren Stoneburner
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Yaamini Venkataraman
Research on mechanisms underlying pollution tolerance, REU program, summer 2014
Now a postdoc
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Pragati Mamtora
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Hanna Casares
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Leslie Wu
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Harmony Phuong Huynh
Research on toxicant sensitivity in copepods, 2010-2011
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Tigran Karamanukyan
Research on long term consequences of toxicant exposure in copepods, 2008-2010
Now a physician
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Leilani Dimond
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Claudia Velazquez
Research on linkage map development, 2008
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DJ Kast
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Jennifer Zieba
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Melisa Lee
Research on copepod hybridization and heritability, 2007
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Jamie Alexander
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Vanessa Knutson
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Shanassa Roen-Padilla
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Yuri Kim
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Asia De La Torre
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Karen (Barnard) Kubow
Research on incipient speciation in Baja copepods, 2003-2005
Now Genomics Research Director at James Madison U.
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William Shyy
Research on copepod microsatellites, 2004
Now a physician
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Kieumai Vo
Research on copepod hybridization, 2003-2005
Now a physician
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Heather Feaman Lenzy
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Edmund Hollis
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Jacobo Seeman
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Maren Connolly
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Julie (Deimler) Truesdell
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