Members of the LODGE

Residents of the LODGE:

		Richard Broughton. Assistant Professor and PI. Molecular population genetics and phylogenetics of fishes, methodological approaches to phylogenetic analysis.E-mail.
		Paulette Reneau. Ph.D. student. Evolutionary patterns of genes and the process of adaptive evolution at the molecular level. E-mail.
		Stephen Richter. Ph.D. student. Evolutionary ecology, conservation biology, and ecological genetics of vertebrates, primarily amphibians. Dissertation research involves conservation genetics of gopher frogs. E-mail.
		Raelynn Deaton. Ph.D. student (with E. Marsh-Matthews). Mate choice and paternity analysis of Gambusia affinis. E-mail.
		David Lam. Undergraduate honors student. Population genetic structure in Gambusia geiseri.

Prospective graduate students may pursue a wide variety of research projects that use molecular approaches in evolutionary biology. Numerous projects are also available for undergraduate honors research or independent study. If you have any questions about the lab or our research, or to enquire about joining the lab, please give Dr. Broughton a call (405.325.5357) or send an e-mail.

Associates of the LODGE:

		Rosemary Knapp. We are collaborating with Dr. Knapp on a project addressing endocrine response to stress in invasive and non-invasive fishes. E-mail.
		Edie Marsh-Matthews. We are collaborating with Dr. Marsh-Matthews on an investigation of population genetic structure of several spring-endemic species of Gambusia in southwestern Texas. E-mail.
		Bill Matthews. We are working with Dr. Matthews (as well as Dr. Marsh-Matthews) in field surveys to fill gaps in knowledge of fish distribution and abundance in the state of Oklahoma and to develop an atlas of fishes of the state. E-mail.
		Larry Weider. We collaborate with Dr. Weider on a variety of projects ranging from breeding site analysis in striped bass to population structure in Daphnia. E-mail.
		Gary Wellborn. We are currently working with Dr. Wellborn to generate a molecular phylogeny of populations, morphotypes, and species of amphipods in the genus Hyalella to examine replicate adaptive radiation and extreme morphological plasticity with respect to molecular divergence E-mail.

Some of our other collaborators include:

Larry Frabotta and Rodney Honeycutt, Texas A&M University. Sequencing mitochondrial genomes of selected rodents.

John Gold, Texas A&M University. Genetic population structure, breeding lineage assignment, and forensic identification of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) from the Gulf of Mexico using mitochondrial D-loop sequences.

Michael Hardman, L.A. County Museum of Natural History. Sequencing mitochondrial genomes of selected siluriform fishes.

Rick Mayden, Saint Louis University. Sequencing mitochondrial genomes of selected lampreys.

Gavin Naylor, Florida State University. We formally and informally collaborate with the Naylor lab on a number of issues related to evaluating phylogenetic characters and the performance of phylogenetic methods.

Michelle Steinauer and Guillermo Orti, University of Nebraska. Sequencing the mitochondrial genome of an acanthocephalan fish parasite.