Nancy A. Moran
Lab Members
Nancy A. Moran
Professor, Integrative Biology
My long-term interests are in the evolution of biological complexity, such as that apparent in complex life histories, in intimate interactions among species, and in species-diversity of clades and communities.
My focus is on symbiosis, particularly that between multicellular hosts and microbes
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Eli Powell
Research Associate
I have been helping to develop tools for studying the biological and functional complexity of microbes and their interactions with each other and their hosts in the guts of honey bees and bumble bees.
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Jo Anne Holley
Associate Professor of Practice
Bugs in Bugs Stream
Freshman Research Initiative
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PJ LARIVIERE
USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow
I’m broadly interested in both studying and engineering biological systems involving bacteria. Currently, I’m developing molecular tools for use in engineering symbionts of honey bees. Joint with Jeff Barrick
Yulin Song
Postdoctoral Fellow
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KORIN Jones
Stengl-Wyer Scholar
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joint with Jeff Barrick
Lucio Navarro
RESEARCH Fellow
Lucio currently works on developing symbiont-mediated RNAi to be used on various applications, including functional genomics and future insect pest management methods. Joint with Jeff Barrick
ALAN E. SILVA CERQUEIRA
Postdoctoral Fellow
I am interested in host-associated bacteria, especially Orbaceae living in Carpenter bee guts. My goal is to isolate, identify and sequence genome of these symbionts. I am also an enthusiast of the stingless bee gut microbiota research.
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JERRY MAEDA
Graduate Student, Cell & Molecular Biology
I am broadly interested in the evolution of bacterial endosymbionts and their eukaryotic hosts. I am also interested in how insect physiology and development impact symbiont transmission and how these factors then shape endosymbiont evolution.
Laila Phillips
Graduate Student, Microbiology
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Allen Xue
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
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ETHAN YU
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
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HILLARY OVALLE
Undergraduate Research AssistaNT,
biology
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Aadhunik Sundar
Undergraduate Research AssisTANT,
biology, PLAN II
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Hailey Anderson
Undergraduate Research AssisTANT,
Neuroscience
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Alejandro Bernardino
Undergraduate Research AssisTANT,
biology
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Cinthia Hernandez-Granillo
Undergraduate Research AssisTANT,
BIOLOGY
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Sylvia Tanguma
Undergraduate Research Assistant,
biology
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Nazhin Nikaeen
Undergraduate Research AssisTANT,
biology
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Jay MAGANTI
Undergraduate Research Assistant,
biology
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Sabrina Sakurako Rinaldi
Undergraduate Research AssisTANT,
biology
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Kim Hammond
Research Associate
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Corey the Bug
Lab Mascot, 2016-2017
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