***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.

Forthcoming: Link to list of popular press articles documenting the importance of collections (as published in the Journal of Mammalogy)

News!
News Archive

July 2018

• Posted on twitter, but posting here as well: Congratulations to Dr. Duane Schlitter on receiving the 2018 Jackson Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. This award recognizes Duane's service to the Society. Congrats, Duane! 
• Fourth of July is coming at a good time; time to decompress a bit from the summer meetings

June 2018

• Congratulations to Jessica on a successful International Congress on Phthiraptera: best tweeter award and elected to the Council
• The Light lab participated in 3 academic meetings this month: Annual Meetings of the American Society of Parasitologists (Whitney) and the American Society of Mammalogists (Adrian, Bridgett, and Leila), and the International Congress on Phthiraptera (Louse Meetings; Jessica)
• Oona's South Africa louse manuscript is provisionally accepted at Systematic Entomology! Congratulations Oona!
• It's summer meeting time! Here are some hashtags to follow on twitter: #ASPCancun #ASMWildcat #ICP6Brno
• Got some manuscripts out in print! Check them out here (poxvirus) and here (bat phylogeography)

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 8 July 2018