Ofelia Delgado
Scorpion Molecular Lab Manager
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Ofelia Delgado was born in Mexico City. She completed her B.Sc. in Biology at the Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2000, based on a floristic survey of tropical dry forest. After graduating, she assisted in the curation of the Section of Odonata in the Insects National Collection, Instituto de Biología, UNAM for two years. She studied at that time the Odonata of Jalisco. Her experience in the field includes collections of arachnids, insects and plants in Central and Southern Mexico. After volunteering in Lorenzo Prendini’s molecular lab for several years, in January 2010 she came to work as the lab manager and technician. Her research will focus on sequencing and editing the DNA of sunspiders and scorpions. |
Former Laboratory Technicians
Rebecca Budinoff (2004), Diana Pietri (2003-2005), Tarang Sharma (2003-2004), Kenneth (Tripp) MacDonald (2005), Monica Mosier (2006), Ligia Benavides (2006-2007), Torsten Dikow (2007), Kanvaly Bamba (2007-2008), Allison Kerwin (2008), Kaythi Han (2008), Yili Lim (2008-2009), and Tricia Rubi (2008-2009) have all worked in the Molecular Systematics Laboratory of the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, AMNH. Budinoff and MacDonald
worked for Associate Curator Lorenzo Prendini in 2004 and 2005, respectively, isolating, amplifying, and
sequencing scorpion DNA for a grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation
awarded jointly to Prendini and Associate Curator Mark Siddall. Pietri has worked for Prendini and Curator
Ward Wheeler from 2003 to 2006, isolating, amplifying, and sequencing DNA from spiders, amblypygids, uropygids and
schizomids for the NSF ATOL Phylogeny of Spiders grant. Benavides took over this position from 2006 to 2007 and Dikow from 2007 onwards. Sharma worked for Prendini in 2003 and 2004, isolating, amplifying, and sequencing scorpion DNA for various projects. Mosier worked for Prendini in 2006, isolating, amplifying, and sequencing scorpion DNA for the NSF REVSYS Vaejovidae grant. Bamba worked for Prendini in 2007, isolating, amplifying and sequencing scorpion and solifugae DNA for the NSF BS&I Solifugae grant, Kerwin and Han took over from Bamba in 2008, and Rubi and Lim completed much of the work beginning in 2008. All assisted with the training of postdoctoral fellows, undergraduate and high school students, and scientists visiting the lab.
