Current Lab Members
BOBBI ADAMS, School of Biological Sciences PhD Student
Bobbi Adams is a doctoral student in the Department of Biology. She received her Bachelors in Fisheries Science from South Dakota State University where she studied the application of microsatellites to study invasive grass carp. Currently, Bobbi is using genetic information obtained from both contemporary and ancient chinook salmon in the Columbia River Basin to investigate the genetic impact of European arrival and the subsequent hydroelectric development in the region. [CV]
CONSTANZA DE LA FUENTE , Visiting Scholar from Chile
Cony is masters student in the School of Biology of the Universidad de Chile. She earned a Bachelors in Anthropology with a Major in Physical Anthropology. Her undergraduate thesis was about the evaluation of ancient dental calculus as a source of bacterial DNA from the normal and pathogenic flora of the oral cavity. Currently, Cony is working in the genetic differentiation of two marine hunter gathered group from Southern South of America (Yámana and Kaweskar) through the analysis of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome in ancient remains. She is still working with dental calculus, looking for the variability of different species inside the oral cavity. Cony is a visiting scholar from Chile and she will be working in Kemp Lab for three months helping in different projects of the Lab.
RODRIGO DE LOS SANTOS, Anthropology Masters Student
Rodrigo De los Santos is a MA student in Evolutionary Anthropology. He received his former degree in archaeology at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan in Mexico. His bachelor's degree project focused on ancient maya warfare and settlement patterns in the northern maya lowlands. His interests include human evolution and behavior, migration of human populations in the Americas, and gene selection theory. His current research seeks to integrate molecular anthropology and archaeolgy methods to explore the interactions between northern Mesoamerica and the Southwestern United States before the Spanish contact.
XANTHE DIMAS , Anthropology Undergraduate Student, Minor in Biology
I am a junior majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Biology. My goal is to attend medical school after college, but I would like to receive some lab experience before I apply. Because Dr. Kemp's research draws from both anthropological and biological standpoints, working in this lab is an ideal opportunity for me to learn not only about ancient societies through aDNA samples, but also to learn even more about my major and minor outside of the classroom.
KATHLEEN JUDD, Research Assistant
Kathleen Judd graduated from Washington State University with a bachelors of science in Genetics and Cell Biology, and is currently working in the lab as a research assistant. She is currently researching dog and turkey mitochondrial DNA in order to determine human migration patterns in the Southwest. She hopes to attend medical or graduate 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.
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.
HOLLY SHAARBAF , Microbiolgy Undergraduate Student
Holly Shaarbaf, currently a freshman at Washington State University. She is majoring in Microbiology and plans to attend medical school after completing bachelor’s degree. She began working in Dr. Kemp’s lab to gain research experience and to expand knowledge of the sciences. She plans on continuing research this summer with the UBM program.
MISA WINTERS, Research Associate
Misa started in the Kemp lab via the UBM program while she was finishing her bachelors degree in Biotechnology from the School of Molecular Biosciences. Her UBM project was an ancient DNA methods
analysis that compared the process of cloning to direct sequencing when the goal is to retrieve consensus sequences. She continued on to complete her Masters in Zoology through the School of Biological Sciences in May, publishing her first paper in the process. Misa is currently working in the lab as a research associate on a grant from the National Institute of Justice. Her work hopes to improve both ancient DNA and forensic DNA analysis by retrieving more molecules during sample extraction.
FERNANDO A. VILLANEA, School of Biological Sciences, PhD Student
Fernando A. Villanea is a PhD candidate in the School of Biological Sciences. His research interest is in evolutionary processes, studied through modern and ancient genetics. 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. More recently his research has focused on modeling the evolution of ABO gene polymorphism in Native Americans by modeling balancing selection at this locus, and in the evolution of an unique ABO marker dubbed “O1vG542A” which has been informative about the origin of all Native Americans, and was characterized in genetic material from ca. 2000 year old archaeological samples, as well as modern populations. His PhD thesis focuses on the demographic history of Northern Fur Seals, studied uniquely though ancient DNA and through Bayesian modeling of the neutral coalescent. [CV]
Past Lab Members
DR. JODI LYNN BARTA, Post-doctoral Researcher
J. MILAGROS BASTOS MAZUELOS, Visiting Scholar from Lima
KYLE BOCINSKY, Anthropology MA Student
CONNOR CORDRAY, Post-Baccalaureate Student School of Biological Sciences
ELISSA BULLION, Post-Baccalaureate Student
KELLI FLANIGAN, School of Molecular Biosciences Undergraduate Student
REBECCA HIGGINS, Anthropology Undergraduate Student
LEAH JORDAN, School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student
SUSAN LUKOWSKI, Anthropology MA Student
HAYLEY MANN, Visiting Masters Student from Sacramento State University
BRADLEY NEWBOLD, Anthropology PhD Student
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
Meet the team!
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