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Drs. Kathleen Nolan (St. Francis) and Carolle Bolnet (Medgar Evers)
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Carolle Bolnet, Ph.D. (middle) and Kathleen Nolan, Ph.D. (right) are being shown how to a handle a blue crab on a joint venture with the UMEB students and the SFC Summer Science Academy on the schooner Pioneer in the New York Harbor.
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Cathi Lehn, AMNH UMEB Coordinator and mentor
After receiving a doctoral degree in Genetics from Texas A&M University, Cathi spent one year at the University of Pretoria, South Africa as a post-doctoral fellow. In addition to training graduate students in new technologies, she also began a genetic study on South African baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus). After her fellowship in South Africa, Cathi was employed by the Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo as a Conservation Biologist. She has worked for and with zoological parks for many years and is currently the Chair of the Biomaterials Banking Advisory Group of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. Based at AMNH for the past six years, Cathi is now the Content Coordinator for the new Hall of Human Origins working with curators Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall. She is also currently working in the molecular lab on Wolbachia, a bacterium that infect insects and disrupts their reproductive systems.
Students: Matt Foster, Columbia University; Eugene Plavskin, REU program
Summer Project: Wolbachia in Costa Rican Lepidoptera
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Angelique Corthals, Curatorial Associate, Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research, UMEB mentor
Students: Mala Subran, St. Francis College
Farah Mathieu, St. Francis College
Nadine Sicard, Medgar Evers College
Summer Project: - Identification of animal tissue samples using cytochrome b gene sequences (Subran)
- Barcoding of lizard tissue (Sicard)
- Wolbachia detection and barcoding of Costa Rican butterflies and moths (Mathieu)
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Julie Feinstein, Collection Manager, Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research, UMEB mentor
Students: Mala Subran, St. Francis
Farah Mathieu, St. Francis College
Nadine Sicard, Medgar Evers College
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Summer Project: - Identification of animal tissue samples using cytochrome b gene sequences (Subran)
- Barcoding of lizard tissue (Sicard)
- Wolbachia detection and barcoding of Costa Rican butterflies and moths (Mathieu)
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Francisca Almeida, AMNH Molecular Lab, UMEB mentor
Student: Natalee Stephens, Medgar Evers College
Summer Project: Pteropids from Africa and Asia
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Eric Stiner, AMH Molecular Lab and Perkins Lab, UMEB mentor
Student: Dieshia Rosa, Medgar Evers College
Summer Project: Microchiroptera of Mozambique
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Ilya Tëmkin, AMNH Malacology, UMEB mentor
Student: Rudgie Fadäel, Medgar Evers College
Summer Project: Evolution of winged oysters
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Kate Holmes, AMH Molecular Lab, UMEB mentor
Students: James Aquino, St. Francis College
Samantha Warren, St. Francis College
Summer Project: Polychaete Diversity in The Bahamas |
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Chanda Bennett, AMH Molecular Lab, UMEB mentor
Student: Jerome Williams, St. Francis College
Summer Project: Indian mongoose in Jamaica
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