Current lab members:
John McCutcheon, PI
Assistant Professor, University of Montana
Associate Member, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
BS, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1996
MS, Human Genetics, University of Utah, 2000
PhD, Computational Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006
PERT Postdoctoral Fellow with Nancy Moran, University of Arizona, 2006-2010
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Amanda Brown
Postdoctoral Fellow
BS, Zoology, University of British Columbia
PhD, Zoology, University of British Columbia
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis.
Toby Spribille
Postdoctoral Fellow
MS, Biology, University of Göttingen (Germany), 2006
PhD, Plant Sciences, University of Graz (Austria), 2011
Academic interests: Evolutionary biology of lichens.
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List of publications
Email: toby [dot] spribille [at] mso [dot] umt [dot] edu
JT Van Leuven
Third year graduate student
IMB PhD Program, Microbial Ecology option
BS, Biology and Math, Carroll College
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis.
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Dan Vanderpool
First year graduate student
IMB PhD Program, Microbial Ecology option
BS, Biology, University of Idaho
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis.
Kelly Nelson
4rd year undergraduate
Double majoring in Microbiology and Human Biological Sciences
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis.
Caitlin Bolender
4rd year undergraduate
Double majoring in Cell and Molecular Biology and Human Biological Sciences
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis.
Emily Kerr
4rd year undergraduate
Majoring Ecological and Organismal Biology
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis (but really snakes).
Dionna Norris
2rd year undergraduate at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Visiting NSF REU summer student
Majoring in Biology
Academic interests: Insect-bacterial symbiosis.
Collaborators:
Filip Husnik
Current position: PhD student, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
BS, Biology, University of South Bohemia
Filip collaborates with us on the mealybug system, and was a lab
visitor in the summer of 2011.
