PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Gustavo Hormiga Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University


POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Suresh Benjamin Assembling the Tree of Life: Phylogeny of Spiders.
Dimitar Dimitrov PEET: Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders


GRADUATE STUDENTS

Daniela AndriamalalaPh.D. Student. Systematics of goblin spiders (Oonopidae).
Ligia Rosario BenavidesPh.D. Student. Systematics of pirate spiders (Mimetidae)
Lara Lopardo Ph.D. Candidate. Systematics of mysmenid spiders (Mysmenidae).

VISITING PROFESSORS


Lihong Tu Assoc. Professor, Normal Capital University, Beijing (P.R. China).

VISITING STUDENTS


Manuel Cárdenas Research scholar.
Guadalupe Corcobado Márquez Research scholar.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS


Anastasia Kondakovaundergraduate student.


LAB ALUMNI


Jeremy Miller Ph.D. 2003, GWU. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
Ingi AgnarssonPh.D. 2004, GWU. University of Akron, Ohio.
Matjaz Kuntner Ph.D. 2005, GWU. Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana,Slovenia.
Fernando Alvarez Ph.D. 2007, GWU. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
VanessaDegrassi Research undergraduate 2004-2006.
Anahita ShayaNSF-REU student, 2006.
Emile J. HasanNSF-REU student, 2006.

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Hormiga lab members. From left to right: Anahita Shaya, Gustavo Hormiga, Lara Lopardo, Suresh Benjamin, Fernando Alvarez-Padilla, Manuel Cardenas and Dimitar Dimitrov. (Not shown: Lihong Tu).