Past REU projects

2012 REU Projects and Participants

• Who is Anomodont A? Archiving and reconstructing serially-sectioned Dicynodont skulls - Dr. Kenneth Angielczyk (Curator/Advisor) and Florence Lin (REU Intern)
• Genetic structure of birds in the Albertine Rift of Africa and implications for conservation and climate change - Dr. John Bates and Josh Engel
  (Curator/Advisors) and Daniel Montgomery (REU Intern)
• Amazonian speciation in a ring: phylogeographic history of the Channel-billed and White-throated toucans - Dr. John Bates and Dr. Jason Weckstein (Curator/Advisors) and Jennie Lee (REU Intern)
• The Bivalve Tree of Life: understanding the evolution of clams, mussels, oysters and their relatives - Dr. Rüdiger Bieler and Dr. Sid Staubach (Curator/Advisors) and Iqra Mushtaq (REU Intern)
• Understanding morphological evolution in lichens - Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch (Curator/Advisor) and Bradley Loomis (REU Intern)
• Using systematic traits of teeth to test trophic niche evolution in theropod dinosaurs - Dr. Peter Makovicky (Curator/Advisor) and Franco Gallastegui (REU Intern)
• Origin and rise of a giant: phylogeography of the Neotropical bullet ant Paraponera clavata - Dr. Corrie S. Moreau and Dr. Stefanie Kautz (Curator/Advisors) and Arista Tischner (REU Intern)
• Bringing new beetles to light - Dr. Margaret Thayer (Curator/Advisor) and Anthony Deczynski (REU intern)

2011 REU Projects and Participants

• Do skeletal dimensions predict daily activity patterns in rodents? - Dr. Kenneth Angielczyk (Curator/Advisor) and Stephanie Smith (REU Intern)
• Bivalves in Time and Space (BiTS): clams as tools to understand macroevolution - Dr. Rüdiger Bieler and Dr. Andre Sartori (Curator/Advisors) and Katherine Anderson (REU Intern)
• The Bivalve Tree of Life: understanding the evolution of clams, mussels, oysters and their relatives - Dr. Rüdiger Bieler and Dr. Sid Staubach (Curator/Advisors) and Hannah Wirtshafter (REU Intern)
• Resolving species delimitations in lichens - Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch (Curator/Advisor) and Warren Chatwin (REU Intern)
• Calibrating phylogenies: are we using the right fossils? - Dr. Peter Makovicky (Curator/Advisor) and Gregor-Fausto Siegmund (REU Intern)
• Do some nocturnal Malaysian mammals see in color? - Dr. Robert Martin and Edna Davion (Curator/Advisors) and Graham Haviland (REU Intern)
• Strategies of acacia-ants: to grow or to reproduce? - Dr. Corrie S. Moreau, Dr. Stefanie Kautz and Benjamin E Rubin (Curator/Advisors) and William Montag (REU Intern)
• Tracing the evolution of venom in scorpionfishes and waspfishes - Dr. Leo Smith (Curator/Advisor) and Elizabeth Everman (REU Intern)

2010 REU Projects and Participants

• Morphological integration of the turtle shell: the effects of plastral hinging - Dr. Ken Angieczyk (Curator/Advisor) and Keegan Melstrom (REU intern)
• The Bivalve Tree of Life: Understandint the evolution of Clams, Mussels, Oysters and their relatives - Dr. Rüdiger Bieler and Dr. Sid Staubach (Curator/Advisors) and Emily Rudick (REU intern)
• Evolution and patterns of reproduction in Philippine mammals - Dr. Lawrence R. Heaney (Curator/Advisor) and Vincent Fitzpatrick (REU intern)
• Phylum Bryozoa: developing a global taxonomy on the web - Dr. Scott Lidgard (Curator/Advisor) and Kamil Slowikowski (REU intern)
• Understanding the evolution of secondary chemistry in lichens - Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch (Curator/Advisor) and Jessica Allen (REU intern)
• The evolution of an ant-plant mutualism - Dr. Corrie Moreau and Benjamin Rubin (Curator/Advisors) and Sara Zufan (REU intern)
• Island gigantism or dwarfism? Phylogeny and taxonomy of Madagascar's chirping Giant Pill-Millipedes, describing newly discovered, micro-endemic species - Dr. Petra Sierwald and Dr. Thomas Wesener (Curator/Advisors) and Stephanie Loria (REU intern)
• An island giant: describing a new species of rove beetle from the Chatham Islands - Dr. Margaret Thayer (Curator/Advisor) and Mairead Baker (REU intern)

2009 REU Projects and Participants

• The early evolution of sea turtles - Dr. Kenneth D. Angielczyk and Dr. James Parham (Curator/Advisors) and William Adams (REU Intern)
• Bryozoan Biodiversity on the Web - Dr. Scott Lidgard (Curator/Advisor) and Bryan Quach (REU Intern)
• Species recognition in tropical lichen-forming fungi - Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch (Curator/Advisor) and Gabrielle Lopez (REU intern)
• Do some nocturnal primates and bats see in colour? - Dr. Robert Martin and Edna Davion (Curator/Advisors) and Austin Hicks (REU intern)
• Ants of the rainforests of South America. Why are some species only found in some places? - Dr. Corrie Moreau (Curator/Advisor) and Elizabeth Loehrer (REU intern)
• Vampires on vampires?: Coevolution of bats and bat flies - Dr. Bruce Patterson and Dr. Carl Dick (Curator/Advisors) and Anna Sjodin (REU intern)
• Giant Pill-Millipedes and Fire-Millipedes from Madagascar, taking stock of a hidden diversity - Dr. Petra Sierwald and Dr. Thomas Wesener (Curator/Advisor) and Ioulia Bespalova (REU intern)
• Branches on the enormous Beetle Tree of Life - Dr. Margaret Thayer (Curator/Advisor) and Kristin Kalita (REU intern)

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