Yuanning Li is a Postdoc currently at Vanderbilt University. He is broadly interested in using genomic tools to understand evolution of deep-sea chemosynthetic organisms and animal phylogeny.
Michael Tassia is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University interested in the evolution of immune systems across invertebrate animals. In particular, his research centralizes on the invertebrate group, Hemichordata, and the innate immune system they share with their mammalian cousins.
Damien S. Waits is a Research Associate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University, His work involves supporting bioinformatic projects across Auburn University's campus. He is interested in symbiosis and the role contaminant sequences play in high throughput sequencing data.
Viktoria E. Bogantes is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University. She is interested in assessing diversity, biogeography and systematics of particular annelid groups by using integrative taxonomic approaches.
Kyle T. David is a PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University. He is interested in bioinformatic methods for exploring molecular evolution, particularly with regard to historically understudied non-vertebrate clades.
Kenneth M. Halalnych is The Stewart W. Schneller Endowed Chair in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University. He is broadly interested in the evolution of marine invertebrates using genomic tools.
