Angela Nguyen
Angie is our lab manager and lord of the flies.
Yesbol Manat
Yesbol is studying evolutionary genetics in flies, including sex chromosomes and sex differences in aging in house fly. He earned his PhD from Lund University, working with Jessica Abbott on sex chromosome evolution and sexual conflict.
Basanta Bista
Basanta is studying sex chromosome evolution in flies. He earned his PhD from Iowa State University, studying the evolution of turtle sex chromosomes with Nicole Valenzuela.
Farnam Ghaem-Maghami
Farnam is studying the effects of house fly proto-Y chromosomes on male mating behavior and fitness.
Sohana Al Sanjee
Sohana is studying house fly microbiomes and sex differences in aging.
Riaz Chy
Riaz is performing comparative genomic analyses in house flies, blow flies, and their close relatives.
Ghada Aimadeddine
Heather Ajanel
Dalia Awad
2025 Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholar
Salam Azim
Prarthana Brahmbhatt
Christian Capule
2025 Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholar
Caleb Chiao
Daniel Elhor
Gabriela Gonzalez
Paris Halbert
Pranav Hariharan
2024 Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholar
Judy Koussayer
Brenda Le
teachHOUSTON Research Fellow
2024 Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholar
Stephanie Mata
Maryam Mukhtarov
teachHOUSTON Research Fellow
2024 IISAGE REU
2024 Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholar
Maria Nava
STEGG-INTERACT Post-baccalaureate
Ethan Nguyen
Om Patel
Elona Polath
Fatima Rashid
Gabriel Reyes
Kelly Salazar
Jennifer Than
Rebecca Warneke
teachHOUSTON Research Fellow
Cassidy Wood
USDA Research Fellow
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Pablo Delclos (2019-2021)
Pablo studied behavioral differences between house flies with different sex determining genotypes. He continued on to a faculty position at University of Houston-Downtown.
Staff
Christopher Gonzales - Technician (2014-2016)
Melissa Li - Technician (2014)
Graduate Students
Danial Asgari, PhD (2018-2023)
Danial studied immune gene expression and evolution. He continued on to a postdoctoral position with Ann Tate at Vanderbilt University.
Carolynn Porter (2020-2023)
Carolynn studied recombination in house fly.
Kiran Adhikari, PhD (2016-2021)
Kiran studied thermal phenotypes, gene expression, and microbiomes in house flies with different sex chromosome genotypes. He continued on to a postdoctoral position with Brian Lazzaro at Cornell University, and he is currently a bioinformatician at Oxford Biomedica.
Zhao Zheng (2020-2021)
Zhao studied population genomics of Drosophila pseudoobscura. She continued on to a PhD program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Jae Hak Son, PhD (2014-2019)
Jae used functional genomics to study how the house fly sex determination pathway and sex chromosomes affect gene expression. He continued on to a postdoctoral position with Serap Aksoy at the Yale School of Public Health, and he is currently a postdoc with Chris Ellison at Rutgers.
Bukola Oguntuase (2016)
Bukola visited our lab from the University of Technology in Akure, Nigeria. She used molecular markers to study the population structure of the flat-headed cusimanse
Jose Torres Gonzalez (2016)
Jose was a rotation student in the Biochemistry program who studied the mating performance of house fly males with different sex determining genotypes
Shuo Zhang (2014)
Shuo was a rotation student in the Ecology and Evolution graduate program who studied house fly sex chromosomes
Cameron Love (2014)
Cameron was a rotation student in the Cell and Molecular Biolgoy graduate program who studied functional divergence of Drosophila duplicated genes
