Past Cook Lab Graduate Students

2010 - University of New Mexico

2007 - University of New Mexico

Name	Degree	Project	Current Position
Tabitha McFarland	MS, 2023	Life Finds a Way: An exhibit on natural selection in the Americas and a phylogeographic study of the Phyllotis xanthopygus complex
Manuela Londoño-Gaviria	MS, 2022	Conservation genomics of the endangered New Mexico jumping mouse.
Dianne Peterson	MS, 2022	El Malpais mammal-flea community.
Schuyler Liphardt	PhD, 2021	Comparative phylogeography across multiple scales: small mammals, their ecology, pathogens, and drivers of diversification.	Postdoc, University of Montana
Carlos Carrion-Bonilla	PhD, 2021	Into the Neotropics: Perspectives on the Evolutionary History of Neotropical Myotis
Katrina Derieg	MS, 2020	The phylogeography and molecular systematics of woodrats (genus: Neotoma) in the American Southwest	Vertebrate Collections Manager, Natural History Museum of Utah
Monica Naranjo	MS, 2020	Museum Studies	Research Assistant, University of New Mexico
Jocelyn Colella	PhD, 2019	Mixing it up: the impact of episodic introgression on the evolution of high-latitude meso-carnivores	Assistant Professor and Curator of Mammals, University of Kansas
Lindsey Frederick	MS, 2018	Museum Studies	Bioscience Collections Manager, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Kaylen Jones	MS, 2018	Museum Studies	freelance artist
Jessica Weber	PhD, 2018	The molecular basis of adaptation in caviomorph rodents	Postdoc, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Dianna Krejsa	MS, 2017	Phylogeography and population dynamics of a cold-adapted carnivore	Curator of Vertebrates, University of Wisconsin, Museum of Zoology
Bryan McLean	PhD, 2017	Pattern and process in the radiation of ground dwelling squirrels	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jolene Rearick	MS, 2017	Molecular evolution of freeze tolerance in North American frogs	Food and Drug Administration, Maine
Kayce Bell	PhD, 2016	Ectoparasite and endoparasite diversification in western North American chipmunks	Curator of Terrestrial Mammals, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Donavan Jackson	MS, 2016	Phylogeography of the meadow vole	PhD student, University of Washington
Amanda K. Jones	MS, 2015	Mammals of the Gila Region, New Mexico	Wildlife Biologist, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Yadéeh E. Sawyer	PhD, 2014	Comparative Phylogeography of the North Pacific Coastal Mammals: Implications for Island Endemics	Engineering Student Success Center, University of New Mexico
Jason L. Malaney	PhD, 2013	Comparative phylogeography of boreal mammals	Bioscience Curator, NM Museum of Natural History and Science
Brittany Barker	PhD, 2012	Comparative phylogeography of ecologically distinct frogs from the Puerto Rican Bank	Research Associate, Oregon State University
Brooks Kohli	MS, 2012	Phylogeography of northern red-backed voles	Assistant Professor, Morehead State University, Kentucky
Andrew Hope	PhD, 2011	Historical biogeography of Beringian shrews	Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Natalie Dawson	PhD, 2008	Vista Norteña: Endemism, conservation genetics, and insular biogeography of mesocarnivores of the North Pacific Coast	Executive Director, Audubon Alaska
Jose "Pepe" France	MS, 2008	Conservation genetics of Wolverines	works in the commercial sector, New York
Anson Koehler	MS, 2006	Comparative coevolutionary examination of Soboliphyme baturini in marten (Martes americana & M. caurina)	PhD, 2010, New Zealand Research scientist, University of Melbourne, Australia
Amy Runck	MS, 2001 PhD, 2006	Genetic and morphologic introgression between Clethrionomys rutilus and Clethrionomys gapperi (Co-advised by M. Matocq)	Department Chair and Professor, Winona State University, Minnesota
Eric Waltari	PhD, 2005	Historical biogeography of Beringia: Phylogeography of soricids and leporids	Research scientist, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,
Byron Weckworth	MS, 2004	Genetic differentiation of coastal wolves	PhD, 2011, University of Calgary Biologist, Panthera's Snow Leopard Project
Aren Eddingsaas	MS, 2003	Aleutian ground squirrels: endemics or introductions?	Biologist, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Idaho
Michael Lucid	MS, 2003	Phylogeography of Peromyscus along the North Pacific Coast	Biologist, Idaho Fish and Game
Eric Tomasik	MS, 2003	Genetic Variation in Wolverine	Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Montana
Kurt Galbreath	MS, 2002	Genetic consequences of Pleistocene glaciations for the tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus) in Beringia	PhD, 2009, Cornell University. Associate Professor, Northern Michigan University
Allison Bidlack	MS, 2000	Molecular genetics of fragmented populations of northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus)	PhD UC Berkeley Deputy Director, Auke Bay Laboratories, NOAA
John Chythlook	MS, 2000	Stickle-back (Gasterosteus aculeatus) differentiation in Bristol Bay	Fisheries Biologist, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Karen Stone	PhD, 2000	The evolution of insular populations of marten (Martes americana)	Professor and Associate Vice President for Curricular Management, Southern Oregon University
John Demboski	PhD, 1999	Comparative biogeography and systematics of several mammalian taxa (Glaucomys, Lepus, and Sorex)	Department Chair and Curator of Mammals, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado
Chris Conroy	PhD, 1998	Molecular phylogenetics of arvicoline rodents	Collection Manager, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley, California
Doreen Parker-McNeill	MS, 1996	Distribution and forest ecology of bats in Alaska	Regional Management Coordinator, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, retired
Ellen Lance	MS, 1993	Biogeography and evolutionary genetics of the tundra vole	Biologist, Endangered Species Field Office, US Fish and Wildlife Service, retired
Suzette Durall-Mouchaty	MS, 1993	Phylogenetic analysis of northern hair seals based on nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene	PhD, University of Lund, retired Univeristy of Houston

2005 - University of New Mexico	2002 - Idaho State University
1999 - University of Alaska Fairbanks