***The Light Lab is seeking graduate students for Fall 2019. If you would like to join the Light Lab, please contact Jessica at jlight2@tamu.edu

Research in the Light lab is focused broadly in evolutionary biology with a focus on systematics, population genetics, and coevolutionary associations between distantly related organisms, particularly mammals and their parasites. In general, our research relies on field work and Museum specimens, and we use molecular and morphological data from recently collected and ancient specimens to help elucidate broad evolutionary processes operating in distantly related taxa. Please see the Projects and Publications page for more examples of ongoing research in the Light lab.

Link to list of popular press articles documenting the importance of collections (as published in the Journal of Mammalogy). Reference: Cook, J.A. and J.E. Light. 2019. The emerging role of mammal collections in 21st century mammalogy. Journal of Mammalogy. in press.

News!
News Archive

November 2018

• Good news on the last day of November and a Friday afternoon: Bridgett's MS thesis has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Mammalogy. WHOO HOO!!!!
• Congratulations to Leila for passing her comprehensive exams, whoo-hoo!!​
• Jessica recently hosted Corey Welch from Iowa State for the EEB seminar series . What a great visit and amazing talk about diversifying STEM. Learn about Corey and his fabulous STEM Scholars Program at Iowa state here.
• Two Light-lab WFSC brown-bag seminars in under a month. Jessica gave a seminar November 3rd; folks seemed to like it.
• Positive news regarding Bridgett's manuscript. Time to revise and resubmit!

October 2018

• Corrie Moreau is visiting! Learn all about her research here: http://moreaulab.org/corrie-moreau/
• I bet Adrian's WFSC brown-bag seminar was awesome. Sorry I missed it!
• Ginormous 579 page NSF TCN proposal submitted!!! WOW
• I only spent ~1/2 day at SACNAS. I was beyond impressed with this organization. Click the link to learn all about SACNAS.
• Whitney's manuscript: resubmitted! Congrats =)
• Texas EcoLabs proposal submitted!
• Hello October! It's going to be a busy month. Here's what's planned: 
  1. ​Big NSF ADBC proposal submission (totaling over $4 million dollars!)
  2. Adrian re-submits a killer (nearly literally) manuscript
  3. Jessica attends, presents, and organizes a Symposium at SACNAS  
  4. Jessica co-hosts Corrie Moreau for an upcoming ENTO and EEB talk 
  5. And more! Stay tuned.....

Contact the Light Lab
Texas A&M University
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mailing address: 534 John Kimbrough Blvd., TAMU 2258; College Station, TX 77843
JEL Office: 268 Wildlife, Fisheries and Ecological Sciences (Building 1537). 979-458-4357

This website was last updated 30 November 2018