Current lab members

Jennifer J. Wernegreen
CV (click here)

email: j.wernegreen [at] duke.edu
office ph: 919/681-0331
Research interests: bacterial genome evolution; host-microbe symbioses, with a focus on bacterial mutualists of ants and other insects; processes shaping natural variation; microbial responses to changing environments.

Laura E. Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow
CV (click here)

email: laura.wlms [at] duke.edu
Research interests: evolutionary genomics, symbiosis, interactions among microbes and between microbes and other organisms, predatory bacteria
Laura’s blog about microbes! (‘Microwaves’)

Yongliang Fan, Research Analyst

email: yf27 [at] duke.edu
Lab phone: 919/ 681-2051
Research interests: insect-microbe symbioses, in particular between the ant genus Camponotus and the Proteobacterium Blochmannia.

Julie Yi,

Undergraduate Researcher

Lab alumni

… OF DUKE LAB (2010-PRESENT)

Eunice Yim, Undergraduate Researcher, summer 2011
email: ey17 [at] duke.edu

Tatiana Fofanova, Undergraduate Researcher (NSF REU, and Explorations in the Genome Sciences student), summer 2011. Currently: continuing her studies as an undergraduate at Rice University.

… OF LAB AT MBL, WOODS HOLE (2000-2010)

Research Assistants:

Adam B. Lazarus, 2001-2010. Currently consultant for education, government and television, based in Woods Hole Mass, and founder of ConsultAnts. See Adam’s TEDxWoodsHole talk HERE!

Patrick H. Degnan, RA 2001-2004. Currently a Postdoc at Yale University.

Ulandt Kim, RA 2004.

Seth N. Kauppinen, RA 2005-2008. Currently Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley.

James Style, RA 2008-2010. Currently graduate student, Univ. of Maine

Postdocs

Carmen Palacios, postdoc 2001-02. Currently at CNRS, France.

Seth R. Bordenstein, postdoc 2002-04. Currently Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University.

Joshua Herbeck, postdoc 2002-03. Currently a Senior Fellow and Acting Instructor at Univ. of Washington.

Adam Fry, postdoc 2004-05. Currently a Lecturer and Coordinator at Univ. of Connecticut.

Erika Del Castillo, postdoc 2009-2010. Currently at MBL, Woods Hole.

Undergraduates

Chad Brock, NSF REU student, summer 2002.