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Former postdoc in the lab, Dr. Axel Schoenhofer, spearheaded a very nice research experience for several Hedin lab members this past summer.  Axel wrote a Mini-ARTS grant, which is a small research award offered by the Society of Systematic Biologists. … Continue reading →

Members of the Hedin lab traveled to Arizona last week, seeking to collect members of the laniatorean harvestmen genus Sitalcina.  The Sitalcina sura species group is mostly Californian in distribution, but includes three rarely collected taxa from montane AZ. We … Continue reading →

Paper with collaborators Mercedes Burns & Jeff Shultz (University of Maryland) just published in Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.  This paper helps to bring more clarity to the phylogenetic structuring of this difficult group. A crucial stepping-stone for future work needed … Continue reading →

In April of 1967 arachnologist Tom Briggs walked into a palm oasis in Anza Borrego Desert State park, and collected 3 female specimens of a small laniatorid harvestmen from under granite rocks.  I wonder how surprised he must have been, … Continue reading →

Undergraduate Daniel Sitzmann spent most of his summer in South Dakota, working as an intern for Brian Patrick of Dakota Wesleyan University.   Daniel was helping Brian with a spider survey at the Fort Pierre National Grasslands. As might be expected, … Continue reading →

Joe Deas, an SDSU Biology alum and previous undergraduate researcher in the Hedin lab, is getting considerable press for his recent publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society. Joe is currently a PhD student in the Molly Hunter lab at … Continue reading →

A strength of the undergraduate Biology curriculum at San Diego State is our continuing emphasis on hands-on, organismal-focused courses.  Faculty members of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program areas continue to offer many such classes (e.g., Botany, Ichthyology, Herpetology, Ornithology, … Continue reading →

Jordan Satler has departed, leaving last Saturday for his new life as a PhD student in the Carstens Lab at LSU.  Jordan was a fantastic undergraduate and MS student while at SDSU – I expect similar greatness from him in … Continue reading →

Welcome to the new and improved Hedin Lab webpage!!  Here you can learn about who we are and what we do.  Hopefully we can keep this page fairly dynamic and updated – please stay tuned for recent news and accomplishments! … Continue reading →