Arachnology @ AMNH

Valentin spent six months at the AMNH working on Southeast Asian scorpions. He generated images and data for a morphological matrix and performed extractions, PCRs and Sanger Sequencing. Additionally, he learned about the biogeography and phylogeny of these scorpions.

Diogo interned in the molecular lab, learning to extract, amplify, sequence, and edit DNA as part of a variety of scorpion phylogenetics projects.

Elena spent the summer at the AMNH as an REU intern under the supervision of Stephanie Loria and Pio Colmenares, focusing on Thelyphonids. She was tasked with generating molecular data and images of the specimens, and also learned about the morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of this order of arachnids.

Colby came to the AMNH as an REU intern. She worked under the mentorship of Ricardo Botero-Trujillo and Stephanie Loria, primarily on Ricinulei, with a focus on the African genus, Ricinoides. She generated an extensive set of morphological images, and she also generated molecular data. At the University of Tennessee, she studies Geology with a focus on Paleontology. In the future, Colby hopes to do more work in the Arachnology Lab..

Deborah spent the summer doing extractions and PCRs on scorpions in the AMNH molecular lab.

Sasha spent the summer obtaining DNA extractions, PCRs and sequences from scorpion samples in the AMNH molecular lab.

Lam assisted with field work in Asia, surpervised by Stephanie Loria.

Massimiliano (Max) Roppo
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2018