Jeff Demuth

Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004
Curriculum Vitae

Office: Engineering & Research Building - Room 430
Phone: (817) 272-2653
jpdemuth@uta.edu

Current Lab Members

Postdocs

Anna Williford, Ph.D

Research Interests: molecular evolution - codon bias

Graduate Students

Eric Watson - PhD Student

Research Interests: Speciation genetics
Website

Heath Blackmon - PhD Student

Research Interests: Coleopteran systematics and evolution
Website

Undergraduate Students

Danielle Moore
Tien Phan
Minh Nguyen
Douja Chamseddine

Former lab members

Emmanuela Mujica - Lab Manager

Donna Kirkland - Lab Manager

Amrita Pal - MS Student (non-thesis)

Brian Fontenot, PhD - PostDoc

Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 2009
Postdoc in Demuth Lab 2009-2010
Current Position: US-EPA Region 6

Eldon Prince - PhD Student

Currently in the Fondon Lab
Website

Amrita Naidu - M.S. (2009)

Masters Thesis: Sex, War and Disease: The effects of infection on horn size and intra-sexual competition in the broad-horned flour beetle, Gnathocerus cornutus

UPDATE: Published in PLoS ONE (January 2012)

Erin Leidlein - Undergraduate

Graduated with Honors 2010
Thesis: qRT-PCR analysis of genes surrounding the Tc1 like insertion known to cause Maternal Effect Dominant Embryonic Arrest (MEDEA).

Sara Richmond - Undergraduate

Graduated 2010

Group Pics

Spring 2011 in front of our new building