Biology Faculty and Staff
Brigid C. O’Donnell
The outside world provokes and inspires my research questions, particularly those that spring to mind while on the banks of beautiful trout streams at dusk. I consider myself to be an integrative biologist that approaches organism-level questions with a suite of molecular tools to study the intersection of evolutionary and developmental processes (“evo-devo”). My graduate research included studies of the evolution of development in mayflies, molecular phylogenetics, character evolution studies and tracking morphological change over early development using SEM. My post-graduate research at Lawrence will be to expand my evo-devo work (e.g. whole mount in situ hybridization and RNA interference on embryos and young nymphs of mayflies) to include several more species, add new loci to my molecular phylogeny and explore the natural history of aquatic insects across Wisconsin.
Courses Offered: Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Special Topics (TBA) in Spring Term 2009.
Education:
PhD University of Connecticut
