***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

March 2019

• One more manuscript submitted, this time to Journal of Mammalogy. Here's hoping it gets sent out for review!
• MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS IS HERE #2019MMM
• Manuscript accepted at Ecology and Evolution. So excited to see this one accepted (pocket gopher-chewing louse population dynamics)
• Three manuscripts submitted to Therya! Yippie!
• Whitney's parasite latitudinal gradient paper is out (early view): Link
• If all goes well, several manuscripts will be submitted the week of March 4th (let's see what happens)​
• Three Light lab manuscripts came out in bring within the first 4 days of March. Check out the Publications page to see them.

February 2019

• New manuscript accepted, yay!
• See the Publications pages for links to Adrian's recent publications. Congrats, Adrian!
• Chewing louse population genetics study online-early here!
• 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.​

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 22 March 2019