The Kooyers Lab circa October 2022. From left to right: (TOP) Noah Richard, Braden Doucet, (BOTTOM) Simon Innes, Gabbie Dietel, Donna Hinrichs, Stacy Holt, Courtney Patterson, Nicholas Kooyers, Blake Kooyers, and Brandon Hendrickson.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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Courtney Patterson
Lab Manager Research Interests: Above and below ground plant interactions, invasive plant species, native plants, baking Email: courtney.patterson at louisiana.edu Dr. Brandon Hendrickson
Post-doc Researcher Research Interests: Phenology and community structure over space and time; characteristics of successful in plant invasions; human mediated plant invasions Email: brandon.hendrickson at louisiana.edu Andrea Turcu
PhD Student Research Interest: Epigenetics, plasticity, fluctuating selection, local adaptation, monkeyflowers akt7425 at louisiana.edu Simon Innes PhD Student Research Interests: Local adaptation, genetic architecture of fitness, clines, botanizing simon.innes1 at louisiana.edu Jonas Mendez-Reneau
PhD Student co-advised with Dr. Erin Sigel Research Interests: Phylogenetics, allopolyploidy, ferns, Hawaii, bioinformatics, herbaria Email: jonas.mendez-reneau1 at louisiana.edu Stacy DeVaughn Holt, Jr.
PhD Student Research Interests: Herbaria, adaptation, invasive species, molecular genetics, botany, prairie ecosystems Email: stacy.holt1 at louisiana.edu Donna Hinrichs
Masters Student Research Interests: invasion biology, population genetics, conservation biology, powerlifting, soccer, Disney World Email: donna.hinrichs1 at louisiana.edu Braden Doucet
Masters Student Research Interests: Local Adaptation of Cajun Prairie Grasses, Population Structure of Cajun Prairie Grasses, MMA, Hugging Plants, Plant ID Email: braden.doucet1 at louisiana.edu Cera Aex
Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: microbiology, molecular genetics, board games Email: cera.aex1 at louisiana.edu Lana Gaspard
Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: monkey flower, plant care and propagation, spicy noodles Email: lana.gaspard1 at louisiana.edu Jace Segura
Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: monkey flower, hiking, Army ROTC Email: jace.segura1 at louisiana.edu Elissa Harb
Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: molecular biology, osteogenesis and biomineralization, genetics, human teeth Email: elissa.harb1 at louisiana.edu |
Kooyers Lab Alumni
Former Research Techs:
Anna Scharnagl (PhD Student, UC-Berkeley)
Undergraduate Researchers:
Emily Bollich (currently a graduate student at ULL!)
Aurora Gaspard
Laura McDonald
Haley St Martin
Connor Perrot
Josh FitzPatrick (currently in medical school at LSU NOLA)
Sofi Garcia
Caitlyn Stamps
Luke Rabalais
Noah Richard
Gabbie Dietel (currently working in the Kulkarni Lab at ULL)
Ben LeBlanc (currently working in the McClain Lab at ULL)
Graduate Students:
Nevada King
Post-docs:
Dr. Brittany Sutherland (currently at George Mason University! http://www.polyploidy.net)
Former Research Techs:
Anna Scharnagl (PhD Student, UC-Berkeley)
Undergraduate Researchers:
Emily Bollich (currently a graduate student at ULL!)
Aurora Gaspard
Laura McDonald
Haley St Martin
Connor Perrot
Josh FitzPatrick (currently in medical school at LSU NOLA)
Sofi Garcia
Caitlyn Stamps
Luke Rabalais
Noah Richard
Gabbie Dietel (currently working in the Kulkarni Lab at ULL)
Ben LeBlanc (currently working in the McClain Lab at ULL)
Graduate Students:
Nevada King
Post-docs:
Dr. Brittany Sutherland (currently at George Mason University! http://www.polyploidy.net)
We are always recruiting new members that are passionate about evolutionary biology! While all of the funded research technician and postdoctoral positions in the lab are full, I encourage anyone interested in a postdoctoral position to contact me (nicholas.kooyers at louisiana.edu). We are always looking for new masters or PhD students to take advantage of numerous well-funded fellowships at ULL.
