Current Lab Members
ELISSA BULLION, Post-Baccalaureate Student
Elissa Bullion received her BA from Middlebury College and is attending WSU as a post-baccalaureate student studying Anthropology. She has worked in the Kemp lab on a variety of projects, collaborating with other lab members, as well as conducting independent work on Paisley Caves rabbit and hare samples and California native samples. Elissa's work with the human samples from California will contribute to Cara Monroe's investigations of California burial populations. Elissa's research interests include using aDNA to investigate kinship and social organization in burial populations, Central Asian archaeology, and mortuary archaeology and theory. She has worked on archaeological projects in Peru, Mongolia, and North America, and will begin her PhD in Anthropology at Washginton University in the fall of 2013.
KATHLEEN JUDD, Undergraduate Student
Kathleen Judd is an 
undergraduate studying Genetics and Cell Biology and minoring in History. She is currently doing species identification of ancient salmon vertebrae through ancient DNA analysis. This will help to determine if salmon species can be properly identified through certain measurements of the vertebrae. She plans on graduating in May 2013 and hopes to attend medical school.
CARA MONROE, Lab Manager and Research Associate
Cara Monroe, is currently a Research Associate and the Lab Manager. As such she has her hands in most projects that occur in the Kemp Lab, including work on mtDNA diversity of Alaskan Natives, mtDNA of northern fur seals, and turkey domestication. She is a PhD student in archaeology at UC-Santa Barbara and her primary research focuses on hunter and gatherer archaeology in the Southwest United States, Central California and Baja California with an emphasis on using ancient DNA to investigate: the structure, timing, and demographics of migration events, hunter-gatherer/forager biological interaction, and relatedness of prehistoric populations at the inter and intra site level. Her dissertation research focuses on the Yukisma cemetery site (CA-SCL-38) in Santa Clara County, CA. Additional projects include: analyzing aDNA from Channel Islands burials as well as finishing a project which investigates mtDNA of Yuman speakers and their prehistoric interactions with Pueblo groups of the American Southwest.
BRADLEY NEWBOLD, Anthropology PhD Student
A PhD student in Evolutionary Anthropology and a fellow of the IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling, Brad Newbold received his former degrees and training in archaeology with emphases in bio- and zooarchaeology. His current interests are geared toward incorporating data derived from ancient DNA, stable isotope chemistry, and geographic information systems into working and testable models that can be examined against the archaeological record. Incorporated in this is the application of population genetic theory to a model-based phylogeographic approach in order to detect signatures of past demographic shifts, population interactions and movements, etc. that have been imprinted into the genomes of humans and other animals. [CV]
ERIN REAMS, Anthropology Undergraduate Student
Erin Reams is an undergraduate studying biological anthropology and minoring in music. She been assisting in the lab on a Department of Justice project that looks at the responses of different polymerases to commonly encountered PCR inhibitors. This summer she will be working with ancient dog and turkey mtDNA, in the hopes of tracing matrilines across time and space. Erin will graduate in the spring of 2013 and hopes to go the graduate school.
MISA WINTERS, School of Biological Sciences MS Student
Misa is a recent graduate from the School of Molecular Biosciences at WSU with a degree in Biotechnology. She is now in the Masters program in the School of Biological Sciences to pursue a degree in Zoology with coursework in Evolution. She was introduced to the Kemp lab via the UBM program and has been conducting research surrounding ancient DNA methods for over a year. She lead an experiment to test whether cloning ancient DNA sequences would provide a different consensus of template DNA than by simply direct sequencing. This also involved going through published ancient DNA literature to find trends in cloning and sequencing methods across the field. Results are very promising and are currently being compiled for publication in the next few months.
FERNANDO A. VILLANEA, School of Biological Sciences, PhD Student
Fernando A. Villanea is PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences. His research interest is in the evolution of phenotypically relevant genes on human and non-human primates. His work has dealt with the evolution of copy number polymorphism of the salivary amylase gene across human populations, the evolution of ASPM-a gene relevant to brain development- using the Costa Rican primate community as a model and more recently modeling the evolution of ABO gene polymorphism in Native Americans based on genetic material from ca. 2000 year old archaeological samples. [CV]
Past Lab Members
DR. JODI LYNN BARTA, Post-doctoral Researcher
J. MILAGROS BASTOS MAZUELOS, Visiting Scholar from Lima
KYLE BOCINSKY, Anthropology MA Student
KELLI FLANIGAN, School of Molecular Biosciences Undergraduate Student
LEAH JORDAN, School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student
SUSAN LUKOWSKI, Anthropology MA Student
HAYLEY MANN, Visiting Masters Student from Sacramento State University
BREANNE NOTT, School of Biological Sciences MS Student
VANESSA ROSS, Anthropology Graduate Student
CASEY ROULETTE, Anthropology PhD Student
JUSTIN TEISBERG, School of Biological Sciences PhD Student
FRANCESCA WHITE, Undergrad Student and McNair Scholar
BRYAN WILSON, School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student
SCOTT WYATT, Anthropology Undergraduate Student
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