Jeff

Jeff Demuth

Associate 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

Graduate Students
Catherine

Catherine Rodgers - PhD Student (2014 - present)

M.S. Mathematics, University of Texas Arlington, 2013
Research Interests: Maternal Effect Embryonic Arrest (MEDEA); Selfish genetic elements
Maya

Marquerite (Maya) Herzog - PhD Student (2016 - present)

NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Pat Tillman Scholar
Research Interests:Molecular basis of behavior; Loser effect behavior
Balan

Balan Ramesh - PhD Student (2016 - present)

Research Interests:Sex chromosome evolution & gene expression, Computational Biology

Undergraduate Students
Emily

Emily Hale

Beena

Beena Margabandu

Kayla

Kayla Wilhoit

High School student
2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search Top 300 Finalist

Alaisha Woodson
Maria Maldonado

Former lab members

Postdocs
Anya

Anna Williford (2011-2012)

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2010
Current Position: Bioinformatics Specialist, UTA Life Science Core Facility
Brian

Brian Fontenot (2009-2010)

Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 2009
Current Position: US-EPA Region 6

Graduate Students
Heath

Heath Blackmon - PhD Student (2010-2015)

B.S,. Oregon State University, 2010
Research Interests: Coleopteran systematics and evolution, sex chromosome evolution

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University (Website)
Eric

Eric Watson - PhD Student (2009-2014)

B.S., Louisiana State University, 2006
Research Interests: Speciation genetics

Current Position: Postdoc in Suzanne Edmands lab (USC)
Heath

Nick Long - MS (2013-2016)

B.S., University of Texas Arlington, 2013

Amrita

Amrita Pal - MS Student (non-thesis)

 
Amrita

Amrita Naidu - M.S. (2007-2009)

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)

Eldon Prince - PhD Student (2008-2010)


Current Position: Senior Principal Data Scientist at Dell

Lab Managers

Emmanuela Mujica - Lab Manager (2010-2011)
Donna

Donna Kirkland - Lab Manager (2007-2009)

 

Undergraduate Students
 

Danielle Moore
Tien Phan
Minh Nguyen
Douja Chamseddine
Priscilla Glenn (Honors Thesis)
Athena Myer
Houda Chamseddine
Erin Leidlein (Honors Thesis) Sara Richmond

Group Pics

Spring 2011

Spring 2011 in front of our new building

family tree

 

 

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