Molecular Systematics Laboratories

Lionel Monod:

(Extension: 5614, E-mail: lmonod@amnh.org)

History:

Lionel Monod was born in Geneva, Switzerland. After completing a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Geneva in 1998, he started a Master’s thesis revising the systematics of Liocheles scorpions at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, graduating in 2000. Monod subsequently worked at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, and conducted several field trips to South-East Asia and Australasia. He visited the AMNH to work in the specimen collections and Molecular Systematics Laboratory for 5 weeks in November–December 2002, supervised by Lorenzo Prendini. His main research focus is the systematics and biogeography of the family Liochelidae. In 2005, Monod was awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship from the AMNH to conduct a Ph.D. thesis on the systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific liochelids, under the direction of Prendini, and he was subsequently accepted into the Ph.D. program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, City University of New York.

Links:

http://scorpion.amnh.org/index.html