Project Personnel
Project Principal Investigators
Postdoc
Institutional Collaborators
Other Collaborators
Brant Faircloth (UCEs, Bioinformatics)
Brian Fisher (Antweb)
Catalina Murillo (Costa Rica Coordinator)
Milan Janda (Mexico Collaborator)
Student Participants
Project Principal Investigators
John T. (Jack) Longino
E-mail: jacklongino@gmail.com
Department of Biology
257 S 1400 E
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical ants (Formicidae).
P. S. (Phil) Ward
E-mail: psward@ucdavis.edu
Department of Entomology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616, USA
Research interests: Taxonomy and phylogeny of ants (Formicidae).
Postdoc
Michael Branstetter
E-mail: mgbranstetter@gmail.com Phone: (801) 581-6609Department of Biology
257 South 1400 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Research interests: Systematics and evolution of Neotropical ants (Formicidae); molecular systematics; development of phylogenomic methods; biogeography of Mesoamerica.
Institutional Collaborators
Paul Hanson
E-mail: phanson91@gmail.com
Escuela de Biología
Universidad de Costa Rica
San Pedro, Costa Rica
Research interests: Systematics, Hymenoptera, Biological Control, Plant Galls.
Adrian Pinto-Tomás
E-mail: adrian.pinto@ucr.ac.cr
Centro de Investigación en Estructuras Microscópicas
Universidad de Costa Rica
San Pedro, Costa Rica
Research interests: Microbial Ecology, Biological Control, Attini.
Dr. Jorge Valenzuela González
E-mail: jorge.valenzuela@inecol.edu.mx
Instituto de Ecología
Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351
El Haya, Xalapa 91070
Veracruz, Mexico
Research interests: Myrmecology.
Other Collaborators
Brant Faircloth
E-mail: brant@faircloth-lab.org
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Research interests: Molecular Systematics.
Brian Fisher
E-mail: bfisher@calacademy.org
Entomology
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Research interests: Taxonomy of ants (Formicidae), Bioinformatics, Faunal Inventory.
Catalina Murillo
Centro de Investigación en Estructuras Microscópicas
Universidad de Costa Rica
San Pedro, Costa Rica
Research interests: Microbiology.
Milan Janda
Department of Biology, University of Guanajuato
Guanajuato, Mexico
Biology Centre of Czech Academy of Sciences
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Research interests: Biodiversity, Ants.
2016 Student Participants from Mexico
Left to right, top to bottom: Miguel Angel García-Martínez (INECOL), Dennis Infante (INECOL), Madai Rosas Mejía (Guanajuato), Anamin Saraí Lizama Ramírez (Guanajuato), Erika Alejandra Conti González (Guanajuato), Jaqueline Ochoa Vega (Guanajuato), Mario Augillar Mendez (Guanajuato).
2016 Student Participants from USA
Clockwise from upper left: Brianna Bartholomew (Univ. Utah), Rhea Cone (Univ. Utah), Gabriel Somarriba (Univ. Florida), Kyle Gray (UC Davis).
2015 Student Participants from Costa Rica
Clockwise from upper left: Irene Calderon, Irene Mata, Josue Corrales, Marianela Solís.
2015 Student Participants from USA
Clockwise from upper left: Krissy Dominguez, Mac Pierce, Scott Heacox, Josh Kouri.