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