Lab Members

Karissa Hughes is a research technician and recent OU graduate. She has worked at LMAMR since 2016 on a number of project- from island translocations to ancient dogs.

karissa.s.hughes-1@ou.edu

Alice Lee is a second year PhD student interested in the microbiome.

arlee@ou.edu

Brittany is interested in historical ecology and ancient DNA.  She is a second year PhD student.

Sara is an undergraduate microbiology and anthropology student. She is working on dietary reconstruction of mink from Maine.

Dr. Lilly Parker is an NSF Polar Programs Post-doctoral Research Fellow. She completed her PhD at George Mason in Biocomplexity and Evolutionary Biology.

lilly.parker@ou.edu

Dr. Sara Schaal is an NSF Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow working on ancient Pacific cod from Alaska.

Dr. Shrushti Modi is a postdoctoral researcher working on the NSF funded DISES project on the North American Fur Trade.

Dr. Courtney Hofman is an associate professor in the anthropology department.

Dr. Sabrina Shirazi was a Smithsonian- Nature Conservancy- OU postdoctoral fellow. She works at the intersection of archaeology and evolutionary biology on the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. She completed her PhD at UC Santa Cruz in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Kaylee graduated as with a BS degree in Anthropology in 2024 . She is worked with Dr. Parker on morphological and genetic analysis.

Dr. Kristen Rayfield received her PhD student in anthropology. She is interested in the oral microbiome and paleopathology and is now a postdoc at Stony Brook

Dr. Hannah Wellman was a visiting PhD student at the University of Oregon. She is interested in historical ecology of marine mammals.

Dr. Alexis Mychajliw was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at LMAMR and a Research Associate at the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum. Her work is at the intersection of conservation, ecology, and paleontology. She is an assistant professor at Middlebury College.

Dr. Janet Buckner was an NSF Post-doctoral Fellow and a visiting researcher at OU. She is interested in avian phylogenomics. She is an assistant professor at UT-Arlington.

Sterling Wright was a Masters student in the Department of Anthropology at OU. He worked on Mesoamerican dental calculus.

Nihan is a former technician and lab manager at LMAMR. She worked on everything from short faced bears to microbiomes.

Mecca graduated from OU but while at LMAMR worked on proteomic methods

Husayn Ramji graduated from OU in Spring 2018 and is now in medical school at OUHSC. He developed protocols for 3D scanning archaeological material before destructive sampling.

Zarine is an undergraduate researcher interested in health and the microbiome.

Megan worked as undergraduate researcher on ZooMS

As an undergraduate researcher, Victoria worked on mink evolution.

Laura was an undergraduate researcher at LMAMR. She conducted research on the dental calculus of weed macaques. Laura is now a PhD student at the U. Minnesota