Lab Profiles

Straub Lab

Shannon Straub
Principal Investigator
Research Interests: Please see my page at Hobart and William Smith.

Fishbein Lab

Mark Fishbein
Principal Investigator
Research Interests: Please see my page at Oklahoma State University.

Cronn Lab

Rich Cronn
Principal Investigator
Research Interests: Please see my pages at the US Forest Service and Oregon State University for biographical details.

Liston Lab

Aaron Liston
Principal Investigator
Research Interests: Plant Systematics and Comparative Genomics (see Oregon State University site for additional details)

Matthew Parks
Postdoctorate
Research Interests: Systematics, phylogenomics, and the exploration of evolutionary history.

I defended my PhD dissertation, titled Plastome Phylogenomics in the Genus Pinus in May of 2012. I am curently doing post-doctoral work at Griffiths University.

Kevin Weitemier
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, botany.

I'm a third-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Liston's lab. For my Masters degree I studied population genetics in a species of lupine (Lupinus), and will be moving to...

Zachary S. L. Foster
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests: My academic interests are diverse, ranging from ancient history to statistics, however my primary focus has been on botany, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. Eventually I would like to conduct phylogenetic research as well as computer modeling of evolution and cellular development.

I am currently enrolled in Oregon State University as a graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program, working in the lab of Dr. Niklaus Grünwald. My primary function for the Milkweed Genome Project was programming for bioinformatics applications and the creation/maintenance of...