Department News
L. Lacey Knowles
- Professor
- Curator, Museum of Zoology
- Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999
Contact information
- University of Michigan
2085 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 763-5603
- Lab: (734) 763-7943
- Fax: (734) 763-4080
- Email: knowlesl@umich.edu
Fields of study
Speciation, sexual selection, phylogeography, and evolutionary radiations
Academic background
I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1999-2002.
Graduate students
Diego Alvarado Serrano, Qixin He, Tristan McKnight, Carlos Munoz, Andrea Thomaz, Lucy Tran, Jen-Pan Huang, Rob Massatti, Marcelo José Sturaro (visiting research scholar)
Research assistant
Racquel Marchan
Postdoctoral fellows
Hayley Lanier, Pavel Klimov (assistant research scientist)
Visiting scholar
Dr.Guo-Fang Jiang, professor, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology and Institute of Genetic Resources, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
Lab alumni
Jason Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010 - 2013
Bryan Carstens, Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-07, now Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Tim Connallon, Ph.D. 2009, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Unviversity, tconnal@umich.edu
Dan Edwards, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Huateng Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow in systems biology, Nephrology/ Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
John McCormack, Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-10, now Assistant Professor at Occidental College
Elen Oneal, Ph.D. 2009, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, eo22@duke.edu
Corrine Richards, Ph.D. 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-09, University of California Berkeley, now Assistant Professor, Tulane University, cori@tulane.edu
Amanda Zellmer, Ph.D. 2010, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Louisiana State University
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Museum of Zoology
Related news
EEB Ph.D. student Marian Schmidt and incoming Ph.D. student Joanna Larson have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Each year, the U-M Museum of Zoology uses its historical endowments, some of which date from the early 1900s, to support graduate students research projects.
Qixin He has been awarded the 2013 Edwin H. Edwards Scholarship in Biology.
