GRADUATE CURRICULUM
- Computational Phylogenetics– University of Gothenburg, Aug-Sept 2019
- Putting a Public Face on Science – R. Gilder Graduate School AMNH– Jan 2016
- Field Parasitology – R. Gilder Graduate School AMNH– May 2014
- Next Generation DNA sequencing – R. Gilder Graduate School AMNH– Jan-May 2013 & 2014
- Systematics and Biogeography – R. Gilder Graduate School AMNH– Sept-Dec 2011 & 2012
- Field Parasitology – R. Gilder Graduate School AMNH– January 2011
K-12
Picturing Yourself in Science
A week-long exposition of imaging technology and science to K-12 students in public schools in Wellesley MA.
October 2019.
Communicating Science –
SEISMIC, New York Academy of Sciences,
Aug 2016
GRADUATE MENTORSHIP
2016-2020 Mai Fahmy – PhD. Fordham University
iDNA biodiversity monitoring in Madagascar
2013-2017 Michael Tessler – PhD. RGGS
New Technologies and Leech Systematics
2013-2016 Jonathon Foox – PhD. RGGS
Phylogenetic Workflows to Elucidate the Evolution of Myxozoa
2008-2012 Sebastian Kvist – PhD. RGGS
Annelid Comparative Genomics
2008-2012 Mark Weckel – PhD. CUNY
Population structuring of White Tailed Deer
2006-2011 Alejandro Francisco Oceguera-Figueroa – PhD. CUNY
South American Giant Leeches
2006-2011 Anna Phillips – PhD. CUNY
Old World Medicinal Leeches
2005-2009 Frank Fontanella – PhD. CUNY
Phylogeography of ring-necked snakes.
2002-2007 Megan Harrison – PhD. CUNY
Population Structure of Symbiotic dinoflagellates and Formainifera
2002-2007 Elizabeth Borda – PhD. CUNY
Evolution and Biogeographic Analysis of Terrestrial Leeches
1997-1998 Kathleen Apakupakul – MS, UMICH
Phylogeny of the Euhirudinea
1995-1996 Brenda Flores – MS, VIMS
Phylogeny of the Haplosporidia
POSTGRADUATE MENTORSHIP
2012-2014 Joanna Wolfe – Gerstner Postdoctoral Fellow
2008-2009 Maria Theresa Aguado Molina – Postdoctoral Fellow
2002-2005 Kenneth Macdonald – Lincoln Ellseworth Postdoctoral Fellow.
2002-2005 Kirsten Jensen – Lerner-Gray Postdoctoral Fellow.
2000-2001 Susan Perkins – Roosevelt Postdoctoral Fellow.
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP
2019 Samantha Miller – eDNA of Myxozoa
2018 Sarah Dendy – iDNA of leeches in Ranomafana
2017 Megan Barkdull – iDNA of Southeast Asian hemadipsids
2016 Melanie Wilson – Coevolution of shipworms & symbionts
2015 Tawnie Miles – Invasive leeches in NY
2015 Ashley Paynter – Contagious cancer of clams.
2014 Rafael Iwama – Korean Leech phylogeny.
2013 Amalie Barrio – Haemadipsid phylogeny.
2012 Rebecca Rood Goldman – Terrestrial Leech Transcriptomes
2011 Abigail Cramer – Testing the Rose Petal Hypothesis
2010 Debbie Bush – Population structuring of white tailed deer
2009 Bella Fuks – DNA barcoding in a marine environment
2007 Dominic Sankar – New leeches from the Pacific Northwest and a barcoding approach to the genus Theromyzon.
2006 Leslie Hughes – Placobdellid leeches of Metropolitain New York
2005 Mary Nkamany – DNA barcoding and Microsatellite analyses of European medicinal leeches
2005 J. Leslie Hughes – Bacterial endosymbionts in marine leeches.
2004 Anna Phillips – Phylogeny of the leech family Macrobdellidae
2003 Stephanie Westergren – New Salifid Leeches from Africa and Madagascar
2002 Rebecca Budinoff – Development of Microsatellite loci for medicinal leeches.
2002 Vitaly Zyhadlo – Ultrastructure of symbiotic bacteria in mycetomes of leeches.
2000 Jake Kattan – Phylogeny and Conservation of the European Medicinal Leech
1998-1999 Lauren Pascoe – Phylogeny of the Dipterocarpaceae
1997-1998 Jessica Light – Phylogeny of the glossiphoniid leeches
