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2008 Lab Group. Left to right, Michael Ferro (Grad. Assist.); Matt Gimmel (Grad. Assist.); Igor Sokolov (Post Doc); Alexey Tishechkin (Post Doc); Chris Carlton (Director); Victoria Bayless (Curator); Stephanie Gil (Grad. Assist.); Jong-Seok Park (Grad. Assist.) (Photo, E. Watson).

 

2006 Lab Group. Left to right, front, Victoria Bayless (Curator), Alison Hepperman (undergraduate intern); Chris Carlton (Director), Stephanie Gil (Grad Assist.); rear, Michael Ferro (Grad Assist.), Dmitry Chouljenko , Matt Gimmel (Grad Assist.), Alexey Tishechkin (Post Doc).

 

 

 

2004 Lab Group. Left to right, front, Victoria Bayless (Curator), Erin Watson (Grad. Assist.), Stephanie Gil (Grad. Student); rear, Dmitry Chouljenko (undergraduate intern), Alexey Tishechkin (Grad. Assist.), Chris Carlton (Director), Igor Sokolov (visiting specialist), Andrew Cline (Grad Assist.)

 

 

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Christopher E. Carlton - ccarlt@lsu.edu - LSAM Director and Professor of Insect Systematics 

Graduate student training, teaching, strategic planning, research, diagnostician, extramural funding.

Victoria Moseley Bayless - vbayless@agcenter.lsu.edu - LSAM Curator 

Specimen and database management, diagnostician, logistics, budgets.

Alexey K. Tishechkin - atishe8@gmail.com - LSAM graduate.

Histeridae specialist, postdoc, visiting researcher, guest curator.

 

Igor M. Sokolov - igbembi@yahoo.com – Former postdoctoral researcher, currently back in St. Petersburg.

Carabidae specialist, researcher for the Great Smoky Mountains Project.

Matthew L. Gimmel - mgimme1@lsu.edu - Ph.D. student

Phalacridae specialist and natural history polymath.

 

Michael L. Ferro - spongymesophyll@gmail.com - Ph.D. student

Dead wood.

 

Jong-Seok Park - jpark16@tigers.lsu.edu - Ph.D. student

Staphylinid specialist, especially Pselaphinae and Aleocharinae.

Stephanie Gil - sgil1@lsu.edu - M.S. student

LSAM graduate, visiting researcher, guest curator.

 

Dmitry Chouljenko - acanthor@gmail.com - NSF postgraduate researcher

Emeritus undergraduate researcher; currently Ph.D. candidate, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

 

 


LSAM Graduates and Former Faculty and Staff

Cheryl B. Barr - Former LSAM Curator 1985-1990

Andrew Cline, Ph.D.
Biosystematist, California Department of Food and Agriculture

Melissa Dean, B.S. undergraduate researcher.
Nature Conservancy, Hilo, HI

Stephanie Gil, M.S.

Contract worker Southeastern University, LSAM visiting researcher, guest curator.

Joyce Fassbender, M.S.
Ph.D. graduate student, City University of New York/American Museum of Natural History

Debra Murray, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University, Durham, NC

Lisa Peri, B.S.
NSF Undergraduate Researcher, private contractor living in Dallas

Erin Grindley Watson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA.

Alexey Tishechkin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher at LSAM

Visiting Researchers

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Joan Chapin and Vernon Antoine Brou, Jr., 2008 (Professor Emeritus, LSAM and avocational Lepidopterist from Abita Springs, respectively). Click here for Vernon Brou page, including links to all publications.

Vladimir Gusarov, 2005 (University of Oslo Natural History Museum, Oslo, Norway)

 

Sergey Kazantsev, 2005 (American Museum of Natural History, NY)

 

Richard Leschen, 2003 (Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand)

 

William Mauffray (left) (International Odonata Research Institute, Gainesville, FL) and Gayle Strickland (right), 2004.

Sean O'Keefe, 2003 (Morehead State University, Morehead, KY).

 

Ainsley Seago, 2004 (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia). http://nature.berkeley.edu/~seago/

 

Charlie and Sue Staines, 2004 (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC)

 

Other Notable Personalities

 

CEC with G. W. Bush, 2003, lobbying for improved systematics funding in the U.S.

 

Muffin, 2006. Lab mascot and recipient of award for least competent aquatic organism. Suffers from a lack of self-esteem but never in a bad mood. Update 2009: Muffin has grown up and has been joined by her buddies, Cupcake and Pancake.

 

Karl Stephan (1932-2005), world's greatest beetle collector. Photo, H. W. Robison, 1990.

 

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