Rob DeSalle

@ AMNH



people

Postdocs & Research Scientists
  • Francisca C. Almeida (PhD 2007, NYU) - Drosophila, rodents, bats, speciation genes, horizontal gene transfer
  • Richard H. Baker (PhD 1999, Yale University) - stalk-eyed flies, ESTs, eye-antennal imaginal disc development
  • Angélica Cibrián Jaramillo (PhD 2007, Columbia University) - palms, cycads, STRs, ESTs, genetic resources
  • Isabela M.G. Dias (PhD 2007, Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Brazil) - marsupials, fitness, habitat fragmentation
  • Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis (PhD 2008, Columbia University) - elephants, pathogens, molecular evolution
  • Eugenia Naro-Maciel (PhD 2006, Columbia University) - sea turtles, conservation, fisheries
  • Cristina Pomilla (PhD 2005, NYU) - whales, arctic mammals, fisheries, social/population structure
  • Paul J. Planet (PhD 2003, Columbia University) - bacteria, genomic islands, phylogenetic incongruence
  • Diana S. Weber (PhD 2003, SUNY Albany) - marine & arctic mammals, MHC, conservation
  • Amir Yassin (PhD 2007, Université Paris XI) - Drosophilidae, Madagascar, DNA barcoding, morphology
Graduate students
  • Samuel N. Crane (CUNY) - Phytophaga, weevils, systematics, phylogenetics, host associations
  • Mike F. Friedman (CUNY) - snakes, systematics, morphology
  • Jacqueline Ay-Ling Loo (NYU) - whales, dolphins, population structure, gene flow
  • Martin Mendez (Columbia University) - dolphins, whales, anacondas, population structure, gene flow
  • Aloysius J . Phillips (Columbia University) - early nervous system development, phylogenetic inference
  • Kari L. Schmidt (Columbia University) - Neotropical parrots, macaws, conservation units, breeding programs
  • Angel Tibbs (CUNY) - pathogenic bacteria, genomic islands
Visiting scientists
  • Michael Levandowsky (Pace University) - microbial communities
  • Melanie Harasym (College of New Rochelle) - bacterial phylogenetics
Collaborators
  • George Amato (SICG ConGen AMNH) - conservation genetics, mammals, birds, marsupials, reptiles
  • Dan Brumbaugh (CBC AMNH) - marine protected areas, Bahamas Biocomplexity Project, bryozoa
  • Robert D. Burk (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) - papillomaviruses
  • Gloria Coruzzi (NYU) - plant genomics
  • John Gatesy (UC Riverside) - phylogenetic incogruence, supermatrices
  • Susan L. Perkins (SICG/DIZ AMNH) - malaria, phylogenetics, viruses
  • Howard C. Rosenbaum (WCS) - cetaceans, conservation genetics
  • Bernd Schierwater (Univ Veterinary Medicine, Hannover) - phylogenomics, early metazoans, Hox genes
  • Wm Dennis Stevenson (NYBG) - plant phylogenomics
  • Alfried Vogler (Imperial College/MNH London) - arthropod phylogenomics, DNA taxonomy
Previous group members
  • Kevin J. Olival (PhD 2008, Columbia University) - AMNH Department of Mammalogy
  • C.A. "Corky" Gaines (PhD 2008, Fordham University) - TBA
  • MariaPia DiBonaventura (PhD 1995, Univ. di Firenze, Italy) - TBA
  • Craig J. Starger (PhD 2007, Columbia University) - Boston University Marine Program
  • Chanda E. Bennett-Gantt (PhD 2007, Columbia University) - AMNH Center for Biodiversity & Conservation
  • E. Kurt Lienau (PhD 2007, NYU) - TBA
  • Ilya Tëmkin (PhD 2006, NYU) - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
  • Ryan P. Kelly (PhD 2006, Columbia University) - Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station
  • I. Neil Sarkar (PhD 2004, Columbia University) - Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
  • Michael A. Russello (PhD 2003, Columbia University) - University of British Columbia at Okanagan
  • Evon Hekkala (PhD 2003, Columbia University) - US Environmental Protection Agency
  • Jim Bonacum (PhD 2001, Yale University) - University of Illinois at Springfield
  • Julian Stark (PhD 2004, NYU) - City University of New York
  • Phaedra Doukakis (PhD 2000, Yale University) - Pew Institute for Ocean Science
  • Joe Thornton (PhD 2000, Columbia University) - University of Oregon

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