Trevor Krabbenhoft, Assistant Professor

We study fish genome evolution and the origins and maintenance of biodiversity. I am particularly interested polyploidy and whole genome duplications in fishes such as suckers (Catostomidae) and ciscoes (Salmonidae).

Dr. Tianying Lan, Senior Research Scientist

Tianying studied the evolution of catostomid (sucker) genomes in the context of whole genome duplications. She is now a Senior Application Scientist at Arbor Biosciences.

Dr. Moisés Bernal, Postdoctoral Researcher

Moisés studied the connection between genetics, morphology, and ecology in Great Lakes Coregonus species ("ciscoes").  Moisés has moved on to an Assistant Professor position at Auburn University:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/cosam/faculty/biology/bernal/index.htm


Read more about Moisés' work at:
https://sites.google.com/site/moisesbernalresearch/

Dr. Daniel (Dan) MacGuigan, Postdoctoral Researcher

Dan just joined us to work on fish evolutionary genomics, hybridization, and speciation.

Nathan Backenstose, Dean's Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate

Nate is studying the evolution of the Great Lakes cisco (Coregonus spp.) species flock.

Hannah Waterman, Schomburg Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Student.

Hannah is studying the evolution of DNA methylation following whole genome duplication in fishes. She is also interested in how DNA methylation contributes to sex determination in fishes.

Katherine (Katie) Eaton, Miles Fellow and Undergraduate Honors Student.

Katie did her undergraduate honors thesis research on the evolution of visual opsin genes in Great Lakes coregonines. Her paper was just published:

Eaton KM, Bernal MA, Backenstose NJC, Yule DL, Krabbenhoft TJ (2020) Nanopore amplicon sequencing reveals convergence and local adaptation of rhodopsin in Great Lakes salmonids. Genome Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.10.93/gbe/evaa237

Katie is now a PhD Student in the Bernal Lab at Auburn University.

Jessie Pelosi, Formerly an undergraduate honors student at Univ. Buffalo.

Jessie did his undergraduate research on octocoral bleaching and systematics (M. Coffroth and H. Lasker labs).

He is currently a Grinter Fellow and PhD Student at the University of Florida, working on comparative and population genomics of ferns in the Sessa and Barabazuk labs.