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Staff


   Curators
 
Division Chair, Ward Wheeler, Ph.D.
 
 
 
Rob DeSalle, Ph.D., Curator, Molecular Systematics
 
 
Lee Herman, Ph.D., Curator, Coleoptera
 
Eunsoo Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Protista  
Susan Perkins, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Microbial Genomics
 
Norman Platnick, Ph.D., Peter J. Solomon Curator, Araneae
 
 
Estefania Rodriguez, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Cnidaria
 
 
Randall T. Schuh, Ph.D., George Willett Curator, Hemiptera, 'Minor' Orders
 
Mark E. Siddall, Ph.D., Curator, Annelida
 
Ward Wheeler, Ph.D., Division Chair, Curator, Molecular Systematics
 

 
   Post-doctoral Researchers
 
John Ascher, Ph.D., Apoidea
 
Richard H. Baker, Ph.D., Diptera
 
Ron Clouse, Ph.D., SE Asian Biogeography  
Louise Crowley, Ph.D., Mollusca
 
Isabella Kappner, Ph.D., Mollusca
 
Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Ph.D., Microbial Pathogens  
Aaron Smith, Ph.D., Coleoptera  
   
   Past Post-doctoral Researchers  
Matthias Burger, Ph.D., Araneae  
Megan Cevasco, Ph.D., Foraminifera & Computational Systematics  
Angelica Cibrian Jaramillo, Ph.D., Plant-Insect Interactions  
Carsten Kamenz, Ph.D., Scorpiones  
Jessica Ware, Ph.D., Isoptera  
Amir Yassin, Ph.D., Orthoptera  
   
   Research Associates
 
Amy Berkov, Ph.D., City College  
Elizabeth Borda, Ph.D., Auburn University  
Christopher Boyko, Ph.D., AMNH  
Mercer Brugler, Ph.D.  
Jane Carlton, Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine  
Gerrry Cassis, Ph.D., Australian Museum  
Jeff Cumming, Ph.D., Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada  
Liliana Davalos-Alvarez, Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook  
Jacques Dubois, Ph.D., Natural History Museum, London  
Michael Engel, Ph.D., University of Kansas  
Douglas Futuyma, Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook  
Gonzalo Giribet, Ph.D., Harvard University  
Kumar Krishna, Ph.D., AMNH, Isoptera
 
 
Vladimir Ovtcharenko, Ph.D., AMNH
 
Kurt Pickett, Ph.D., University of Vermont  
Kim Russell, Ph.D., NJ Institue of Technology  
Susanne Schulmeister, Ph.D., AMNH  
Michael Schwartz, Ph.D., Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada  
John Tietjen, Ph.D., AMNH  
David Wagner, Ph.D., University of Connecticut  
Christiane Weirauch, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside  

 
  Research Associates (expanded list)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Administrative Staff
 
Collection Management
Christine Johnson, Ph.D., Curatorial Associate, Division Collections
 
    Scientific Assistants
Lilly Berniker, Araneae
Nadine Dupérré, Araneae
Ofelia Delgado, Arachnida (non-spider),  Myriapoda
Andrew Johnston, Amber, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Isoptera
Eli Wyman, Hymenoptera (Apoidea)

      Curatorial Assistants
Melody Doering, Hymenoptera
Naomi Hanson, Hemiptera
Suzanne Rab Green, Lepidoptera
 
Assistants
Charlie Elias, Hymenoptera
Hadel Go, Hymenoptera
Sarah Kornbluth, Hymenoptera
Matthew Tuell, Hymenoptera
 
Laboratory Management
Gelonia Dent, Manager, Computational Sciences
Mohammad Faiz, Laboratory Manager
Patricia Rubi, Laboratory Manager
Sara Schoenbrun, Laboratory Manager
Ellen Trimarco, Laboratory Manager

   Special Projects Staff
Lin Hong, Programmer
Nicholas Lucaroni, Programmer
Apurva Narechania, Programmer
Katja Seltmann, Project Manager
Stephen Thurston, Illustration, Digital Imaging

   Visiting Scientists
William Emerson, Ph.D., AMNH, Curator Emeritus
Martin Mendez, Ph.D., Columbia University
Aloysius Phillips, Columbia University
John Pickering, Ph.D., Discoverlife
Howard Rosenbaum, Ph.D., WCS & AMNH
Julian Stark, Ph.D., CUNY
Boris Zakharov, Ph.D., CUNY

   Graduate Students
Philip Barden, Hymenoptera
Bryan Falk, malarial parasites
Edmundo Gonzalez, Scorpiones
Sebastian Kvist, Hirudinea
Stephanie Loria, Scorpiones
Ansel Payne, Hymenoptera
Kari Schmidt
Carly Tribull, Hymenoptera
Isabelle Vea, Sternorrhyncha
 
 
  Volunteers
Jenny Burgman, Arachnida (non-spider)
Jill Cashman, Lepidoptera
Howard Fiedler, Arachnida (non-spider), Myriapoda
Arnold Fleischer,D.V.M., Heteroptera
Tom Gartner, Araneae
Dan Jacobs, Hymenoptera
Ilse Kaim, Arachnida (non-spider), Myriapoda
Pat Malkin, Illustrator, Araneae
Jane Mills, Mollusca
Laura Moustakerski, Arachnida (non-spider)
Tom Sullivan, Araneae