If you are an undergraduate looking for research experience, or a graduate student wanting to gain skills in molecular ecology/evolution in my lab, here are some short projects that I think will be fun and lead to interesting results. Come talk to me for more details.

1. developing microsatellites for Notropis lutipinnis will help us better understand the history of the 'Little T' populations of this southeastern minnow

2. characterization of microbial diversity in southeastern rivers is a side project also related to my work on Notropis lutipinnis, pertaining to possible adaptive evolution by this fish to the microbial environment

3. 'DNA barcoding' of the distribution of 2 cryptic species of Melampus bidentatus in the "hammock" environments of coastal Georgia. This work would primarily involve PCR and restriction digest tests to recover the frequency of a rare cryptic species at ~60 sites for which the microhabitat characteristics are well-described

4. temperature-profile analysis of different clades of the Pacific barnacle Balanus glandula. this is an upcoming collaboration with former Grosberg labmate Sarah Gilman

5. grasshopper gene flow studies, another salt marsh project

6. helping out current projects in the lab (isopod evolutionary ecology, conservation genetics of mussels, larval ecology and evolution, metapopulation dynamics, phylogenetics, molecular evolution)