CURRENT MEMBERS: Principal Investigator Ted Morgan Ted is the bigger one in the green teacup. Ted received his BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from The University of Arizona in 1997. He completed his Ph.D. in 2002 in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University. For his dissertation work, Ted worked on a "classical" quantitative genetics project in house mice. Specifically, this work utilized statistical and mathematical quantitative genetic approaches to determine the effects of early-age selection on molecular and quantitative genetic variation in house mice. He then moved to North Carolina State University as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow where he developed a molecular quantitative genetic research program focusing on the genetic control and evolution of stress-response phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster. The Morgan Lab was recently (August 2006) founded at KSU when Ted accepted an assistant professorship in the Division of Biology. Are you interested in joining the lab? See the openings page or e-mail me. Postdoctoral Fellows None currently -- this could be you! Graduate Students Lindsey Fallis Lindsey received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Biology from Texas Christian University where she worked on the developmental reproductive biology of the highly invasive zebra mussel. While at TCU she developed an interest in evolutionary genetics, so in 2007 she joined the Morgan Lab supported by an Ecological Genomics Graduate Fellowship. Lindsey is broadly interested in the evolutionary processes that drive phenotypic adaptation within and among natural populations of Drosophila. She is currently characterizing patterns of phenotypic variation in environmental stress response phenotypes along latitudinal clines in north and south america. These phenotypic analyses will motivate future studies on the molecular genetic basis of adaptive phenotypes in nature. YOU? - Want to join the lab as a graduate student? Technicians Katie Clowers Katie is a temporary tech in the Morgan Lab. She recently graduated with a BS (summa cum laude) in biology from KSU. Katie will be function as a full time technician in the Morgan Lab until she departs for graduate school at the University of Wisconsin in the summer of 2009. Katie joined the Morgan lab in the Summer of 2007 when she decided she wanted to work on animals. Katie is supported by the McNair Scholars Program. She is currently working on a project that focuses on linking molecular variation in cold tolerance candidate loci with standing phenotypic variation in nature via candidate gene association mapping. She has previously conducted ecological genomics research on the genomic response of prairie grasses to climate change variables, this previous work was conducted in the Johnson Lab at KSU. YOU?- Want to join the lab as a technician? Undergraduate Students Jennifer Arnold Junior in Biochemistry Lindsay Creviston Senior in Nutrition Science YOU?- Want to join the lab as an undergraduate? MORGAN LAB ALUMNI: Mike Westphal Mike received his BA in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2007 he completed his Ph.D. in Zoology at Oregon State University. For his dissertation research Mike worked with Steve Arnold on a project investigating the adaptive evolution of morphological traits in garter snakes (genus Thamnophis). Specifically, he investigated the role of selection in promoting among-population divergence in color patterns. His dissertation research combined intensive field studies, molecular genetic analysis, and captive husbandry and provided him with a broad training in ecological and evolutionary quantitative genetics. Mike is supported by an Ecological Genomics postdoctoral fellowship and is coadvised by Ted Morgan and Sam Wisely. Mike's current research at KSU integrates his previous research on the quantitative genetics of color pattern variation with the molecular genetic dissection of the genetic basis of color polymorphism, as well as the ecological variables that may act as agents of selection on snake coloration in nature. Mike is currently an ecologist for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Hollister, California. Jennifer Stegman Jennifer is a senior in biology at KSU and has broad interests in biology and biochemistry. She joined the Morgan Lab in 2006 supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute undergraduate research scholar award. She worked on a project developing a set of molecular markers based on single feature polymorphism (SFP) data in our artificial selection lines. Jo(anna) Bronkema Jo (orange shirt) was an REU summer student from Earlham College in Richmond, IN. She worked with Mike (black shirt) on the evolutionary genetics of snake coloration across the midwest during the summer of 2008. Here they are somewhere is South Dakota processing a huge pile of snakes Jo found in a den. Sailesh Menon Sailesh was the founding technician for the Morgan Lab. Sailesh received his B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Oklahoma State University in 2002. After the completion of his B.S. he joined the Greenwood Genetics Center in Greenwood, SC. While he was in the Morgan lab he participated in various molecular projects, as well as overseeing and completing the hundreds of DNA extractions that need to be completed in the lab. Additionally, during his time in the Morgan lab he became quite the master of home brews. Sailesh departed in January 2008 to take a new microbiologist position in College of Veterinary Medicine at KSU. Abi Jones Abi was a senior biology major at KSU. 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Morgan Lab

Division of Biology

116 Ackert Hall

Manhattan, KS 66506

Ted’s phone: 785-532-6126

Lab phone: 785-532-6074

Fax: 785-532-6653

email: tjmorgan@ksu.edu


Location: Chalmers Hall Rm 261/263

Office: Chalmers Hall Rm 239D


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