Luciano M. Matzkin

Luciano in OPNM Dr. Luciano Matzkin
Assistant Professor
Director of the Graduate Program
Deparment of Biological Sciences
2011-present

Assistant Research Scientist
2008-2011
University of California, San Diego

NIH (PERT) Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-2008
University of Arizona

PhD 2003
State University of New York at Stony Brook

 

Lab Staff
Laurel Young
Lab Manager extraordinaire!!!

Does it all, flies, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, enzyme kinetics, fish trematodes and even bakes cookies on fly transfer day.
 
Graduate Students

Carson Allan
Genomics & Bioinformatics

Assembly and evolutionary analysis of the genomes of all four D. mojavensis cactus host races (Catalina Island, Mojave Desert, Sonora Desert and Baja California).

Alexandra Jost
Drosophila behavioral genetics.

Local adaptation in pupation preference and larval activity and their implications for ecological speciation.

Gisela Harper
(Co-advised with Dr. Bruce Stallsmith)
Analysis of diet preference of Atlantic Sharpnose sharks (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae) in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

Undergraduate Students
Sienna Kostencki
Variation in insecticide resistance among the four D. mojavensis cactus host races.
Jesse Murabito
Jonathan Sullivan
Variation in chemosensory behavior across the four D. mojavensis cactus host races. In the JUMP program (joint BS/MS program).
Monique Whitaker
Jana Whittle
Lab Mascots


Amy the cactophilic Drosophila pinata


Kate the fly food pump

Paco and Taco

Charlie (Hyla cinerea), very happy to take the extra lab flies
Alumni

Amanda Bosserman
 
Jessica Craft PhD Program UC Berkeley
Fernando Picazo UCSD

Reginal Henderson
Huntsville Hospital
Sandy Rios  
Joel Schumacher UCSD
   

 

 

Department of Biological Sciences