Lab Personnel

Principal Investigator

• Guillermo Ortí, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Chenhong Li
• Cal Borden

Current Gradute Students

• Jeremy Brozek (MS)
• Jason Macrander (MS)
• Julie Sommer (PhD)
• Stuart Willis (PhD)

Undergraduate students

• Shane Gibson
• Josh Allison

Past Graduate students

• Mike Bessert (MS, August 2002, PhD 2006; Starting Jan 2008: Asst Prof Dept of Biology University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie)
• Sara Brant (PhD August 2002, postdoc at Luisiana State University 2002-2003, postdoc at Univ of New Mexico, 2003-)
• Gustavo A. Concheiro Pérez (MS, December 2002)
• Izeni Farias (PhD 2001, Univ de Para, Belem, Brasil; currently Asst. Prof. at Univ. de Amazonia, Manaus)
• Jeff Huebschman (PhD May 2003, School of Nat. Res. Sci; major advisor Dr. H. Genoways)
• Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz (PhD 2004, Parasitology, major advisor Dr S. Gardner)
• Chenhong Li (PhD 2007, currently postoc in this lab)
• Federico Ocampo (PhD 2003, Entomology; major adivsor Dr. B. Rattcliffe)
• Annie Paradis (MS July 2003, co-adviced with Dr. S. Louda, currently PhD student at University of Massachusetts)Adela Roa Varon (MS)
• Cory Ross (Ph.D. 2005; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX )
• Obdulia Segura (PhD 2004, Entomology; major advisor Dr. Lance Meinke)
• Arjun Sivasundar (MS, July 2000; currently PhD student at Rutgers University)
• Michelle Steinauer (PhD 2004, major advisor Dr. Brent Nickol

Past members

• Kelly Dietz (lab tech from Jan 2001 to May 2000)
• Dr. Yuan Huang (postdoc 1998-1999)
• Jerry Johnson (part-time postdoc 2000)
• Dr. Wei-Jen Chen (postdoc 2001-2002)
• Dr. Federico G. Hoffmann (postdoc 2003-2005)

Short-term Visitors

• Dr. Rodrigo Torres (Universidade de Marilia, Marilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil -- January to March, 1999)
• Nancy Holcroft (Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA -- January 2001)
• Abigail V. Harter (Dept. of Biology Indiana University - Bloomington IN, USA -- June 2001)
• Prof. Horacio Schneider (Univ. Federal do Pará, Bragança, Brazil -- Jan to Jul 2005)
• Dr. Carmen R. García Dávila (Inst. Investigaciones Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Peru -- Sept to Nov 2005)
• Silvana Pereyra (Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la República, Uruguay -- Oct to Nov 2007)
• Luis Costa (Univ. Federal de São Carlos, SP, Brazil -- March to June 2008)
• Cecilia Conte-Grand (Univ. Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina -- April to June 2008)
• Mariela Cuello (Univ Nacional de La Plata, Argentina -- April to May 2008)
• Tatiane Casagrande Mariguela (Univ Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil -- June to Nov 2008)
• Geysson J. Fernandez (Univ de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia -- June to Nov 2008)
• Luz E. Ochoa-Orrego (Univ de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia -- June to Nov 2008)