Current Personnel

Director

Office: 401 Widtsoe Building

Phone: 422-3495

Research Interests: Phylogenetics (theoretical and empirical), population genetics, crustacean systematics, visual pigment evolution, molecular evolution, conservation genetics, biodiversity, bacterial genetics.

Lab Manager

Maegan Finley

Office: 680 Widtsoe Building

Phone: 422-5594

Email: mjfin22@gmail.com

Research Interests: Population genetics, conservation genetics, molecular evolution, human genetics, crayfish

Post Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Heather Bracken

Office: 601 Widtsoe Building

Phone: 422-1733

Email: heather.bracken@gmail.com

Research Interests: Decapod phylogenetics with an emphasis in caridean systematics, population genetics, molecular evolution

Graduate Students

Jesse Breinholt, Ph.D. student

Office: 179 Widtsoe Building

Phone: 422-4398

Email: jessewayne34@hotmail.com

Research Interests: Freshwater crayfish evolution, phylogentic systematics, population genetics, Dipsosaurs dorsalis

Matthew Bendall, M.S. student

Office: 601 Widtsoe Building

Phone:422-1733

Email: matthew.bendall@gmail.com

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular evolution, viruses, high throughput sequencing technologies, computers

Eduardo Castro Nallar, Ph.D. student

Office: 601 Widtsoe Building

Phone: 422-1733

Email: castronallar@gmail.com

Research Interests: Molecular evolution, infectious disease, viral evolution

Undergraduate Students

Jeff Staples "Mpieritreritra" Bioinformatics Major	Jennifer Rasmussen "Betaine" Biology Major	Nathan Clement "Simulator" Bioinformatics Major
Taylor Southwick Bioinformatics Major	Dohyup Kim Bioinformatics Major	Jordan Fritzsche Nutritional Science Major
David McKean Bioinformatics Major	Adam Bracken Biology Major	Tannen Fawcett Biology Major
Maren Ettinger Genetics and Biotechnology Major	Brian Holt Computer Science Major	Ben Ainscough Bioinformatics Major

BYULinks

Crandall Lab