Lab PI: Sara Ruane, see contact for my details
Students:
Fandresena Rakotoarimalala (University of Antananarivo)
Fandresena is a doctoral student at the University of Antananarivo (co-advised with Achille Raselimanana), she’s working on Calumma chameleons community structure and population genetics in fragmented forests of Madagascar’s Central Highlands. Linked in here https://www.linkedin.com/in/fandresena-rakotoarimalala-190729a7
Madelynn Sinclair (University of Chicago, CEB)
Madelynn is a doctoral student who is working on the evolution of heat-sensing pits and associated structure and genes across Boiidae.
Anthony Sena (Rutgers and NJIT)
Anthony (successfully!) finished his ms summer 2019 with me and continues expanding his work on mimetic systems for snakes for his dissertation work in the Ruane Lab and working with faculty at NJIT
Dr. Justin Bernstein
(former student at Rutgers and wooo my first PhD student)
Justin came from the Bauer lab at Villanova, where he has worked on squamate phylogenetics using molecular data. He started his PhD work at Rutgers Fall 2017 and graduated in 2022, he is currently a postdoc at the AMNH.
link to GS here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W33RrDAAAAAJ&hl=en
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Tianqi Huang (Rutgers and now FMNH)
Tianqi is an ms-turned-PhD student who was co-advised with Peter Morin at Rutgers NB. Tianqi’s work is focused on urban snake populations in the urban jungles across NJ and he is now doing postdoctoral work with me at the FMNH.
SARA'S SNAKEPIT 