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Fall, 2008 Jack Sullivan, (jacks at uidaho.edu) - Associate Professor of Zoology Current Graduate Students Ken Berger (kberger at vandals.uidaho.edu) - Ken is working on ecomorphology of western shrews and phylogeography of the wandering shrew, Sorex vagrans.   Jennifer Ripplinger (jripplinger at vandals.uidaho.edu) - Jennifer is a BCB student interested in model selection and phylogenetic theory.   Jason Evans (joevans at gmail.com) - Jason is a BCB student interested in reticulating phylogenies and phylogenetic theory. Brice Sarver ( sarv7016 at vandals.uidaho.edu) - Brice has just begun PhD project on testing diversification with gene flow in chipmunks.   Former Undergradute Research Assistants   Jeremiah Degenhardt Jeremiah has just started his program in Bustamante's lab at Cornell.   Angela Stevenson Angie is now a PhD student in Kelly Zamudio's lab at Cornell.   Karina Villa Phylogeography of polydesmid millipedes and Coeur d'Alene salamanders. Origin of banana slugs in northern Idaho and phylogeography of jumping slugs. Testing parapatric speciation in the bat genus Anoura.   Former Postdoctoral Fellows Chris Drummond, (cdrummon at uidaho.edu) was a postdoctoral fellow from Frbruary, 2006 through June, 2008. He was funded via the Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations. Kari Segraves, Ph.D. (ksegrave at syr.edu) - Kari received an NSF Bioinformatics Postdoc to work in the lab on bioinformatics approaches to testing escape-and-radiate coevolution. She started a tenure-tack position in the Biology Department at Syracuse University in the fall of 2005. Roland Fleissner, Ph.D. (fleissner at cs.uni-duesseldorf.de) - Roland was an IBEST Postdoc, and was co-advised by Paul Joyce. He's interested in statistical alignment and modeling sequence-length variation. He's also working on improving convergence properties of mcmc in gereral, and specifically with respect to Bayesian estimation of phylogeny, by using "small world" approaches. John R. Demboski, Ph.D. (john.demboski at dmns.org) - John is now Curator of Vertebrate Biology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science   Former Graduate Students Sarah Hird (hird3189 at uidaho.edu) - Sarah worked on introgression between chipmunks in the Inland Northwest. She defended her MS in June 2008.   Noah Reid (nreid at vandals.uidaho.edu) - Noah worked on chipmunk hybrid zones and phylogeny. He defended hi MS in August, 2008 and has started a PhD with Bryan Carstens at LSU. Barley Hyde - Nuclear markers to test hyotheses of hybridization in Tamias amoenus canicaudus.   Bryan Carstens (PhD, Dec. 2004; carstens at lsu.edu ) - Bryan is an assistant professor at LSU.   Jeff Good (M.S., May 2002; jeffrey_good at eva.mpg.de) - Currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.   Marilyn Nielson (M.S., May 2001; marilynnielson at yahoo.com) - Marilyn runs BlueRye Ecological Services in Tekoa, WA.   Stacey Poler (spoler at uidaho.edu) - Stacey works in the Math Department at UofI.   Danny Harris (No photo), Danny received his M.S. in Duke Rogers' Lab at BYU.