Dumbacher Lab members, Students, and collaborators
Jack Dumbacher, Curator and Chair of Birds and Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences.
B.S. Vanderbilt University
M.S. and Ph.D. University of Chicago
Post-doctoral Research Smithsonian Institution
My CV (from November 2023)
My website at the California Academy of Sciences
Also, Jaime Chaves and I have a joint lab group at San Francisco State University - check out our joint website here: Galapagos Research Lab
B.S. Vanderbilt University
M.S. and Ph.D. University of Chicago
Post-doctoral Research Smithsonian Institution
My CV (from November 2023)
My website at the California Academy of Sciences
Also, Jaime Chaves and I have a joint lab group at San Francisco State University - check out our joint website here: Galapagos Research Lab
Moe Flannery, CAS Ornithology and Mammalogy Collections Manager
Moe focuses on marine mammal work, but she also works on birds and terrestrial mammals. Moe's main website at the Academy is here. 
Jaime Chaves, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, San Francisco State University
Jaime does amazing work of all sorts in the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador, as well as new projects in North America. Jaime's personal website is here. And our joint website for students at SFSU is here. 
Zach Hanna was a PhD student at UC Berkeley in mine and Rauri Bowie's Lab. Zach has worked in the Dumbacher lab since he finished his undergraduate degree (at UC Berkeley) doing things like avian viral metagenomics, DNA sequencing for a variety of projects, and collecting in South America and Papua New Guinea.
Zach's PhD thesis focused on the genetics of Strix owls. He has sequenced and assembled the entire Northern Spotted Owl genome, and he is using it to work on a phylogeny for the genus Strix, studying the genetics of the invasive Barred Owls in western USA, and studying genetic introgression between Barred Owls and Spotted Owls. Zach most recently worked on a post-doc with Jeff Wall at UCSF studying recombination rates in vertebrates using whole genome sequences. |
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Ethan Linck is a professor at Montana State University . He earned his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle and the Burke Museum of Natural History. Ethan did his undergraduate work at Reed College, and did his undergraduate thesis partly under the guidance of CAS collaborators (in my lab and the Center for Comparative Genomics), and he published a very nice paper on the genetic structure of the Louisiade White-eye. Another project was also partly a collaboration with our lab, where Ethan experimented with using hyRAD sequencing data to investigate the lowland phylogeography of the New Guinea Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro). Ethan is continuing to do fieldwork in New Guinea - and I would love to see him in the field! Check out Ethan's personal website here, especially if you are interested in working with Ethan!
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Galen Rathbun, Research Associate, and Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
Galen passed away in 2019, but at least for the time being, his work is still hosted on the websites below. Galen was an amazing collaborator, world expert on elephant shrews (aka sengis), and a great friend. We miss him...
Here is Galen's site at the California Academy of Sciences and here is Galen's personal site.
And he also maintained an excellent site on sengis and worked with the Afrotheria Specialist Group.
Galen passed away in 2019, but at least for the time being, his work is still hosted on the websites below. Galen was an amazing collaborator, world expert on elephant shrews (aka sengis), and a great friend. We miss him...
Here is Galen's site at the California Academy of Sciences and here is Galen's personal site.
And he also maintained an excellent site on sengis and worked with the Afrotheria Specialist Group.
Elizabeth Carlen completed her Masters Degree at San Francisco State University studying the evolution and phylogenetics of giant sengis (genus Rhynchocyon) with Galen Rathbun and Jack Dumbacher. Most of her work involved Sanger sequencing mitochondrial and nuclear genes for phylogenetic and biogeographic work.
She is now working on a Living Earth Collaborative postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis working with Dr. Jonathan Losos. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the impacts of urbanization and environmental racism in Eastern Gray Squirrels.
Elizabeth did her PhD work at Fordham University in New York studying the urban biology of pigeons and other human associated animals.
Follow Liz on twitter @E_Carlen.
She is now working on a Living Earth Collaborative postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis working with Dr. Jonathan Losos. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the impacts of urbanization and environmental racism in Eastern Gray Squirrels.
Elizabeth did her PhD work at Fordham University in New York studying the urban biology of pigeons and other human associated animals.
Follow Liz on twitter @E_Carlen.
Tom O'Shea is a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences, and retired US Government Biologist. You can read more about his specialties and his productive career here.
Tom is a key member of our team conducting small mammal surveys in Desert National Wildlife Refuge. His knowledge of bats of the southwest has been invaluable to the project.
Tom's USGS site is here and links to his 130+ publications, including a large monograph in the California Academy of Sciences Proceedings on bat species of special concern.
Tom is a key member of our team conducting small mammal surveys in Desert National Wildlife Refuge. His knowledge of bats of the southwest has been invaluable to the project.
Tom's USGS site is here and links to his 130+ publications, including a large monograph in the California Academy of Sciences Proceedings on bat species of special concern.
Laura Wilkinson recently retired from her CAS position as a Curatorial Assistant at the California Academy of Sciences. She prepared bird and mammal specimens, sequences DNA, and studies avian malaria in Alaskan birds.
Laura's California Academy of Sciences website is here.
Laura's California Academy of Sciences website is here.
Gopinathan Menon is a Research Associate and Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and is an avian skin expert. We have collaborated to study the morphology of Pitohui toxic skin, and how the birds accumulate toxins in skin and feathers.
You can learn more about Gopi's scientific work on his Research Gate page here.
You can learn more about Gopi's scientific work on his Research Gate page here.