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Chakrabarty Lab
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Wilfredo Matamoros (Freshwater Postdoc)
Will joined the lab in August 2010. He is interested in Neotropical freshwater fishes, particularly those from his native Honduras.
Since joining the lab he has collected in Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
Ph.D. Student
Caleb McMahan
Caleb joined the lab in September 2010,check out his website:
CALEB McMAHAN
Master's Degree Student
Valerie Derouen
Valerie joined the lab in September 2011,check out her website:
VALERIE DEROUEN
Undergraduates
Justin Kutz
Melanie Warren
Parker House
Jessica Spedale
Justin has been working with me since his senior year in high school, he is a LA-STEM HHMI REU student and has worked on various cichlid projects include creating www.cacichlids.com. Melanie is a LA-STEM and IMSD student working on gathering genetypes for a bioinformatics publication. Parker has worked on DEPTHMAP and is a co-author on a submission related to that project. Jessie is working on various projects related to carrying out the molecular work on neotropical fishes we are doing in the lab.
Alumni
Former Graduate Student Curatorial Assistants: Santiago Claramunt (Fall 2008, Fall 2010), David Anderson (Fall 2009), Gustavo Bravo (Summer 2009), James Maley (Summer 2010) and Research Assistant Haw Chuan Lim (2009-2010)
Former Undergraduate Assistants: Paige Patterson & Maiadah Bader, Shelley Chauvin and Jessica Salter, Jill Dowling
Former Undergraduate Assistants: Lee Shelton, Ross Hartfield
Former Postdoctoral Fellow: Matthew Davis (Jan 2010- Nov 2011)