Karissa Hughes
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
Kristen Rayfield
Kristen Rayfield is a PhD student in anthropology. She is interested in the oral microbiome and paleopathology.
Kristen.M.Rayfield-1@ou.edu
Robin Singleton
Robin Singleton is a PhD student in anthropology. She is interested in conservation genetics and ancient DNA.
rgsingleton@ou.edu
Alice Lee
Alice Lee is a first year PhD student interested in the microbiome.
arlee@ou.edu
Sara Williams
Sara is an undergraduate microbiology and anthropology student. She is working on dietary reconstruction of mink from Maine.
Kaylee Tatum
Kaylee is an undergraduate anthropology student. She is working with Dr. Parker on morphological and genetic analysis.
Dr. Lilly Parker
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. Sabrina Shirazi
Dr. Sabrina Shirazi is a Smithsonian- Nature Conservancy- OU postdoctoral fellow. She is working 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.
Sabrina.B.Shirazi-1@ou.edu
Dr. Courtney A. Hofman
Dr. Courtney Hofman is an associate professor in the anthropology department.
Hannah Wellman-Alumni
Hannah Wellman was a visiting PhD student at the University of Oregon. She is interested in historical ecology of marine mammals.
Rita Austin-Alumni
Dr. Rita Austin is former PhD student in the Anthropology Department at OU. She conducts research on ancient dental calculus from museum collections. She is a post-doc at the University of Oslo.
austinrmca@gmail.com
Alexis Mychajliw- Alumni
Alexis 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.
Janet Buckner- Alumni
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- Alumni
Sterling Wright was a Masters student in the Department of Anthropology at OU. He worked on Mesoamerican dental calculus.
Nihan Dagtas- Alumni
Nihan is a former technician and lab manager at LMAMR. She worked on everything from short faced bears to microbiomes.
Mecca Djahedian-Alumni
Mecca graduated from OU but while at LMAMR worked on proteomic methods
Husayn Ramji- Alumni
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 Cabral
Zarine is an undergraduate researcher interested in health and the microbiome.
Megan Tolbert- Alumni
Megan worked as undergraduate researcher on ZooMS
Victoria Paige-Alumni
As an undergraduate researcher, Victoria worked on mink evolution.
Laura Pott-Alumni
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