Molecular Systematics Laboratories
At the American Museum of Natural History
Rebecca Budinoff:
Professional history:
Rebecca was an REU intern in 2002 and started working full time at the AMNH after graduating from Cornell University in the spring of 2003. She has been with the Wheeler Lab since 2005. Currently, Rebecca is the Lab Supervisor. She is also gathering DNA sequence data for Assembling the Tree of Life: Protostome.
Publications:
1. Pellens, R., Budinoff, R. B., Wheeler, W. C., Grandcolas, P. In review. Patterns and timing of diversification of the cockroach Lauraesilpha in New Caledonia, and its relation to ultramafic soils and mountains.
3. Perkins, S. L., Budinoff, R. B., and Siddall, M. E. 2005. New gammaproteobacteria associated with bloodfeeding leeches and a broad phylogenetic analysis of leech endosymbionts. Applied Environmental Microbiology, 71: 5219-5224.
4. Siddall M. E. and Budinoff R. B. 2005. DNA-barcoding evidence for widespread introductions of a leech from the South American Helobdella triserialis complex. Conservation Genetics. 6: 467-472
5. Siddall, M. E, Budinoff, R. B., and Borda, E. 2005. Phylogenetic evaluation of systematics and biogeography of the leech family Glossphoniidae. Invertebrate Systematics, 19: 105-112.