• David Houle is a dedicated fly guru, sometime theorist, a SAS recidivist, an eager birder, and an aspiring gardener. He is currently busy enjoying all the South has to offer, but not chiggers. Ah,  Tallahassee. Email: dhoule@bio.fsu.edu.
• Brian Hollis is a Ph.D. student studying the effects of sexual selection on adaptation, and the identity of sexually selection traits in flies. 
• Janna Fierst is a Ph.D. student working on genetic networks that produce phenotypes, particularly those that must produce dimorphisms. 
• Don Griffin is a Ph.D. student doing analyses of epistatic gene effects in selected lines.
• Stephanie Schwinn is a Master's  student studying the evolution of a novel network connection. She started out as an undergraduate assistant in the lab, became a full-time technician before moving to the academic track.
• Erin Healan is a Ph.D. student interested in sexual selection and behavior. 
• Jessica Nye is a Master's student interested in the genetic basis of variation in wing form.  She started out as an undergraduate in the lab. 

Our current undergraduate/lab assistants: 

• David Aponte
• J. D. Dornell
• Kimberly Johnston

OUR GLORIOUS ALUMNI

• Jason Mezey was a post-doc in the lab, immersed in multidimensional geometry. Now he is an assistant professor at Cornell.   Email: jgm45@cornell.edu
• Becky Fuller received her Ph.D. at FSU with Joe Travis.  Her major work is on the coevolution of the sensory system and mating display in a Florida fish. She picked up the lab banner on "fluck-ing A," investigating the relationship between genetic variation in variance and FA. She is now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois.
• Kim van der Linde worked on fly wings and a phylogeny of the Drosophilidae in the lab.  She is now in the Lisa Lyons lab at FSU.   Email: kim@kimvdlinde.com. Website. 
• Ashley Carter selected on wing shape in flies. He is now an assistant professor at Cal. State Long Beach. Webpage:: http://www.ashley-carter.com
• Chad Evers is ex-lab manager, who worked his way up from boyfriend. He departed to get his Master's degree at UCSF, and is now monitoring aquaculture in south Florida for the DEP.  
• Jeff Birdsley works as a technician in the lab, and is responsible for keeping fly bodies and souls together while Houle thinks. Jeff is really an avian phylogenetic systematist, but is making himself into a Dipterist as we watch. His web site has a good record of seasonal abundance of Drosophila in Tallahassee.  Email: birdsley@bio.fsu.edu..
• Fiona Smyth successfully moved through all the undergrad roles in the lab, and is now a Ph.D. student in the Florida State Medical School.  She and grad. student Brian Hollis met over flies, and are now the proud parents of Sam. 
• Paul Galpern received his Master's degree in the lab at Toronto. He was briefly seduced by the beauty of the fly wing - it's appearance enhanced by colored lines , its voluptuous shape, its principal warps. Paul is now a graduate student in ecology at the University of Winnipeg.
• Becca Hale was our R programmer for a while.   She is back to her day job is being a graduate student at Univ. of Florida, studying plasticity in a fish.
• Wen-cha Feng was briefly a graduate student in the lab. Check out the wedding pics.  bluechacha18@hotmail.come
• Don Ohmes wandered in from the countryside one day with a burning desire to study insect flight.  
• Art Poon, is our artist ( Art's art ), and worked in the lab as an undergraduate.  He got a Master's degree in population genetics with Sally Otto, and a Ph.D. with Lin Chao on beneficial mutation rate.
• Bob Morikawa, has retired from the lab after round III with the flies. He remains undefeated. Bob has an M.S. in forestry from Michigan State, and, between rounds, is putting this expertise to excellent use in Tanzania, rural Haiti, and with Toronto parks. Bob enjoys planting trees, hacky sack, and counting sternopleural bristles. Email: morikawa@interlog.com
• Stephanie Weinstein has seen fruit flies on four continents. She was the delicate hand behind the evolution in a bottle experiments in press, but got a Master's degree in conservation biology at the University of Florida. 
• Erica Kleiman started as an undergrad, worked here after graduation until moving on to Jamilla Horabin's fly lab at the Medical School. 
• Lock Rogers is an ex-post-doc and currently father of baby A.  
• Kim Kilcourse was a technician in the lab, but has now returned to the cool northeast. 

Thanks to our undergraduate alums: 

Florida State University

• Barak Wray
• Gavin Handrop
• Ester Kim
• Tina Weier
• Jennifer Polland
• Jim Moss
• Ahkeel Allen
• Kimei Cheung
• Kim Amrose
• Sara Graf
• Andria Osario
• Saif Zaiman
• Whitney Bevis
• Matthew Welch
• Greg Kirchenbaum
• Amanda Dorweiler did a super project on epistasis between wing mutants.
• Sarah Brooks is off to Pharmacy school.  
• Yunily Ng was an international student who traveled all the way from Hong Kong just to work here. After a study of flight performance in flies that would rather walk than fly, especially after being starved, she became the big cheese and head programmer of the wing selection crew. She runs really fast after Fluon spills. She enjoys classical music and clothes from hom
• Liv Carpenter was a pre-med known for her love of peaches and making her own clothes.  Unlike the other slackers in the lab, Liv plans to obtain an M.D./Ph.D. and do research of her own.  She hates to autoclave.
• Kathy Malik did a project looking at the effect of size changes on wing shape.  She had so much good data, she had to take statistics.
• Ben Datu conducted an independent project in the lab, looking at the effects of natural and sexual selection on male fitness in mutant populations. Ben is now studying epidemiology at Georgetown. He is the proud owner of Julian, a dachshund who only turns right, and never to the left. If Julian ever gets lost, we know he won't get far. 
• Nikki Guran and Maria Castilla were the original wing-selecting duo.  They claimed they worked more than twice as fast when they were together, but there was an awful lot of giggling back there. 
• Peter Lamar did some great programming for us.  He welcomes complaints about his programs, and will get back to us later about solutions. 
• Cynthia McDermott's favorite class while she was in the lab was calculus. Need we say more? 
• Alex Harper came all the way from Cocoa Beach to work in the lab.
• Jessica Gunzburger came all the way from Iowa to do a summer in the lab. 
• Mariam Gudarzi  

University of Toronto

• Natalia Sokolovska is another product of an independent project in the lab, where she showed that spontaneous mutations are bad, but female flies don't care.
• Haddas Grosbein put in years of the most reliable, faithful work on flies.
• Keith Duguay was a biology and philosophy double-major who worked in the lab for three years.  He is also our fly photographer. After considering careers in environmental biology, environmental studies,  philosophy, OR medical school, he decided on  . . . ARCHITECTURE. He started at the U of T school in fall 2000. Has his own web page too:  Keith's web page.  Email: keith@duguay.com
• Peter Tait was around the lab many years, and has now moved into the world of genomic data analysis, partly thanks to his knowledge of SAS.  It really does pay off!
• There were many others . . .

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