Who We Are

A Backbone for the Peracarida is an international collaboration of museums and universities working to resolve the phylogeny of one of Earth's most astonishingly diverse animal groups by uniting the work and collections of peracarid biologists worldwide.

A Backbone for the Peracarida team members at a project planning workshop in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

People

University of Alabama Museum of Natural History, U.S.

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Kevin Kocot (PI)

Associate Professor, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology

kmkocot@ua.edu


Will Farris — Technician wjfarris1@ua.edu

University of Alaska Anchorage, U.S.

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Sarah Gerken (PI)

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

sagerken@alaska.edu

Samantha Antonio — B.Sc. student

Victoria Vandersommen — Master's student

Natural History Museum of LA County, U.S.

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Regina Wetzer (PI)

Curator and Director, Marine Biodiversity Center

rwetzer@nhm.org


Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria

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Martin Schwenter (PI)

Curator, Crustacea

Anna-Chiara Barta — PhD student, University of Vienna, Natural History Museum of Vienna

Project: Phylogeny and Evolution of Peracarida (Crustacea)

anna-chiara.barta@nhm.at 

Universität Rostock, Germany

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Stefan Richter (PI)

Professor für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie

stefan.richter (at) uni-rostock.de

Markus Grams — PostDoc student, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie

Project: Transformations in the evolution of Peracarida

markus.mendes-grams(at)uni-rostock.de

University of Lodz, Poland

Emma Palacios Theil — Adjunct Professor

emma.palaciostheil@biol.uni.lodz.pl

Kamila Głuchowskal — PhD student

Project: Genetic Basis of Deep-Sea Adaptations in Crustaceans of the Order Tanaidacea

kamila.gluchowska@edu.uni.lodz.pl

Partners

California State University Dominguez Hills, U.S.

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Charlene McCord — Assistant Professor, Marine Biology

cmccord@csudh.edu

Fang Wang — Coordinator, Biology Master of Science Program

fwang@csudh.edu

Kathryn Theiss — Assistant Professor, Plant Biology

ktheiss@csudh.edu