***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

February 2019

• New papers with volumes and page numbers, coming soon! 
• Jessica and Adrian are off to the annual meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists. Track the meeting here: #txmamm2019
• Congratulations to Whitney again! The first manuscript from her dissertation has been accepted for publication in Ecography.​

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! ​

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 16 February 2019