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Mike Hickerson
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Duke University)
Queens College - City University of New York
Biology Department
room SB E321
65-30 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY 11367
Office 718-997-3447
Lab 718-997-3415
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Ph.D. University of British Columbia)
Research: Biogeography and evolution of Holarctic smelt. Comparative phylogeography of the North Pacific and North Atlantic. Katriina got her PhD in Eric Taylor’s Lab
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Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Comparative phylogeography, environmental niche modeling and systematics of east African montane small mammals
Terry Demos has advanced to PhD candidacy!!!
(Terry with his thesis committee)
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Ph.D. Candidate (Starting Fall 2009)
Research: Phylogeography of hippocampus erectus and other sygnathids. J.T. is co-advised by John Waldman and also works at the River Project
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Yan Qi
Ph.D. Candidate
Research: Developing approximate Bayesian computation models for biogeographic inference
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Undergraduate Researcher
Developing software tools for HABC (msBayes). Wen has expanded msBayes to include additional summary statistics including Shannon’s Index (as suggested by Sherwin et al. 2006) and Wakeley’s variance in pairwise differences. Wen is also enabling msBayes to use IM infiles.
Undergraduate Researcher
Molecular population genetic analysis of comparative phylogeographic data sets (data collection and analysis)
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Michael Khadavi
Undergraduate Researcher
“Phylogeography of phylogeographic methods”