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Erika Garcia has been conducting undergraduate research in my lab for several semesters, as she works to learn more about cryptic species diversity in Appalachian harvestmen. Along the way she has gained tremendous lab & field experience, and in winning … Continue reading →

Just returned from a very nice & successful AAS meetings.  The venue (East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN) was excellent, with a real Appalachian flavor.  We were able to spend a bit of time collecting in the area, finding … Continue reading →

Casey publishes his fine MS thesis!  Open access here!                    

My collaboration with Jeff Shultz (Univ of Maryland) and his immensely talented PhD student, Mercedes Burns, has been quite excellent. Most recent paper available here

          Thanks to Jiří Král for involving me in this research!!

Donated a few SDSU insects to a budding young biologist, helping her pursue her dreams 🙂    

Just back from a Springbreak collecting trip with a crew from SDSU and UC Riverside.  We traveled to the western foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, starting in Tuolumne County, and ultimately winding (literally!!) our way down … Continue reading →

Neat 🙂

New paper just published on “Early View” at Molecular Ecology with co-authors Jim Starrett and Cheryl Hayashi from UC Riverside.  I’ll call it “Atypoides II”, although the species is now officially known as Antrodiaetus riversi. This research follows from our … Continue reading →

Just returned from an excellent trip to the southern Appalachians!  The primary goal was to collect samples of the federally-endangered Spruce-fir moss spider (Microhexura montivaga) for Illumina NGS transcriptome work.  From these transcriptomes we’ll develop rapidly-evolving genetic markers for downstream … Continue reading →