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Department of Entomology
University of Illinois
505 S Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
(520)548-8134
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the
Department
of Entomology at the University of Illinois. My research concerns
biological diversity and the processes that generate it, and is motivated
by a long-standing interest in natural history. My focal organisms
are usually ants, but recently I have been delving into the evolutionary
history of beetles and some of the parasitic wasps.
I study biological diversity from two perspectives.
The first research perspective is descriptive, producing taxonomic revisions,
catalogues of regional faunas, and descriptions of new taxa. The
second perspective is historical, involving the inference of evolutionary
relationships among taxa using DNA sequence data.
This site contains synopses of some recent
research
projects, several of my publications,
my C.V., and a link to
myrmecos.net, my gallery of insect photographs.

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