PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Gustavo Hormiga Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology
Research Associate American Museum of Natural History,  New York
Research Associate California Academy of Sciences,  San Francisco
Research Associate Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 

ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS
Dimitar Dimitrov Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Fernando Álvarez-Padilla Facultad de Ciencias - UNAM, Mexico D.F, Mexico  

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ligia Rosario Benavides Ph.D. Candidate. Systematics of pirate spiders (Mimetidae)
Jesus Ballesteros Chavez  Ph.D. Candidate. Systematics of orchard spiders (Leucauge: Tetragnathidae).
Thiago da Silva-Moreira  Ph.D. Candidate. Systematics of Neotropical sheet-web spiders (Linyphiidae) 
Robert Kallal  Ph.D. Student. Spider systematics  
Lidianne Salvatierra.  Ph.D. Student (INPA, Manaus, Brazil). Uloboridae systematics  

LAB ALUMNI
Jeremy Miller Ph.D. (2003) Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands 
Ingi Agnarsson Ph.D. (2004) University of Vermont, Burlington, USA 
Matjaz Kuntner   Ph.D. (2005) Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Fernando Álvarez-Padilla  Ph.D. (2007) Facultad de Ciencias - UNAM, Mexico D.F, Mexico 
Lara Lopardo Ph.D. (2009) University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany 
Daniela Adriamalala Ph.D. (2013) Antananarivo, Madagascar. 
Suresh Benjamin  Postdoctoral Researcher  (2005-06) Institute for Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka. 
Dimitar Dimitrov Postdoctoral Researcher  (2005-09) Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Vanessa Degrassi  Undergraduate research (2004-06)   
Anastasia Kondakova  Undergraduate Student  
Anahita Shaya   NSF-REU student (2006)  
Emile J. Hasan  NSF-REU student (2006)   
Jessica Watari   Undergraduate Assistant (2010-12)  
Emily Graffis  Undergraduate Assistant (2012)  
Dustin Cooper  Undergraduate Assistant (2012-13)  
Zain Hassan  Undergraduate Student (2013)  
Manuel Cárdenas  Visiting Doctoral Student  CSIC & Universidad de Granada, Spain
Guadalupe Corcobado Márquez  Visiting Doctoral student  CSIC & Universidad de Granada, Spain
Lihong Tu  Visiting Professor  Capital Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China 
Estevam Cruz da Silva  Visiting Doctoral student (2010) PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil 
Regianne Saturnino  Visiting Doctoral student (2012) Museu Goeldi, Belem, Brazil 
Jimmy Cabra  Visiting M.S. student (2012) Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo. Brazil. 


Hormiga Lab people

Hormiga lab members: From left to right: Daniela Adriamalala, Gustavo Hormiga, Ligia Benavides, Jesus Ballesteros, Thiago da Silva Moreira and Jessica Watari. (not shown: Robert Kallal)