Current Laboratory Members

Current Laboratory Members

This site is under constant construction.

	Dana Nayduch, PhD – Lab PI – for research interests, go here.

Graduate students
	Claire Hilsinger (MS student – fall 2007-present) – *Parasite/host dynamics between the nematode Skrjabinoptera* phrynosoma , the lizard Phrynosoma platyrhinos, and the ant Pogonomyrmex spp.**

	Naveen Kumar (MS student – Spring 2008-present) Housefly bacteriology – role of glycocalyx in bacterial survival in houseflies.
Undergraduate students	2008
Virginia and Dat Dat pipeting Muaz extracting DNA Yessie measuring nematodes	Vampire bat symbiotic bacteria project: Joseph DiPietro, Muaz Ibrahim, Virginia Wiggins. Summer REU *- Yesenia De León - Skrjabinoptera* phrynosoma dynamics in the lizard Phrynosoma platyrhinos Summer McNair fellow: Dat Hoang – Sarcotoxin temporal expression in flies Virginia loading a gel Dat taking notes**
Former students Matt and Rob from CCAT	2007: BIOL 4890 - Jennifer Towner, Jamie Anderson – helminth parasites of bullfrog tadpoles Summer REU *– Donovan Guidry – diptericin* expression in houseflies Summer RET – Juli Sergi and CCAT high school students (Matt Kennedy, Rob Simone – shown, left) – Herpetomonas in houseflies**
Joseph	*Joseph McGaughey (Summer/Fall 2007 4890 student) – Fate of recombinant GFP-tagged Aeromonas* hydrophila in the housefly midgut.**
Joseph won the ESA president’s prize in Med/Vet entomology at the national meeting in December 2007!