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Principle Investigator: T. Mason Linscott
I am an evolutionary biologist and malacologist who seeks to understand the fundamental mechanisms that shape the variety of forms we see in nature. I am also a snail-nerd and am deeply committed to shedding light on this group to address their conservation needs. My lab pursues both basic and applied scientific research to advance our understanding of evolution and inform current policy.
I received my PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of Idaho where I worked with Christine Parent as a member of the Parent Lab. From there, I moved to Virginia Tech for an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology in Josef Uyeda's lab developing phylogenetic comparative methods for ecophysiologically constrainted traits. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Tulsa where I worked with Ronald Bonett as a member of his lab.
Graduate Students:
Thomas Everest
I am an incoming PhD student and snail enthusiast interested in the phylogeography, systematics, and evolution of terrestrial and freshwater gastropods. I plan to combine traditional morphology and distribution data with modern molecular techniques to implement taxonomic revisions and descriptions of North American snails. I am also interested in studying how geomorphology affects speciation. I hope to use my research to contribute to citizen science and inform conservation and management decisions. I worked for several years in the Invertebrate Zoology collections at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History before receiving my BS in Biology from Wheaton College. I then worked for three years as a lab tech in the Department of Entomology at Cornell University.
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