***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

January 2019

• Congratulations to Whitney! She's going to take a postdoctoral research position in the lab of Chelsea Woods at the University of Washington.
• The chewing louse population genetics study out of the University of Northern Iowa louselab (louselab.uni.edu/) is now online at Molecular Ecology. Check it out here
• Adrian's study at Methods in Ecology and Evolution is available online here
• Bridgett's Master's thesis is online at Journal of Mammalogy. Here it is! 

December 2018

• Happy holidays everyone! See you in 2019!
• TWO IN A ROW! MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED! Chewing louse population genetics study out of the University of Northern Iowa louselab (louselab.uni.edu/) accepted at Molecular Ecology. Huzzah!
• MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED! Congratulations to Adrian on getting the first chapter of his dissertation accepted! #milkshaketime
• Two manuscripts in press at Journal of Mammalogy (Benedict et al. and Cook & Light). Look for them in 2019. Cook & Light is available now via AdvanceAccess. 
• Congratulations to all of Light's undergraduate students for surviving Natural History of Vertebrates and General Mammalogy. And congrats to all of you that graduated!

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 7 January 2018