Leonie Moyle

Principal Investigator/Fearless Leader

Ph.D. Duke University

Phone: 812/856-7027
Fax: 812/855-6705
Email: lmoyle[at]indiana.edu

Natasha Sherman

Post Doc

Ph.D. University of Georgia, 2009

I am completing my Ph.D. at UGA and join the Moyle lab in January 2010 - can't wait!

Email: nsherman[at]uga.edu

Chris Muir

Graduate Student

I am interested in how the genetics of speciation influence large scale patterns of biodiversity. The type of questions I hope to address in my dissertation include: What is the genetic architecture of traits underlying species differences? Do genes underlying divergent adaptation also drive reproductive isolation? Are biodiversity gradients explicable from a genetic understanding of adaptation?

Email: chrisdmuir[at]gmail.com

Yaniv Brandvain

Graduate Student (co-advised by Mike Wade). I work on some problems in population genetic theory. Some of these problems involve the evolution of genomic imprinting. With Leonie, I am doing some controlled crosses to identify imprinted regions of the tomato genome. Read more about me here.

Email: ybrandva[a]indiana.edu

Mohamed "Mo" Yakub

Research Associate

I'm working on a variety of lab projects, from pollen-ovule interactions to fine-mapping, and am working on a project with Stacey looking at cold tolerance of tomato seeds. I also spend lots of time in the greenhouse, collecting data and caring for the plants.

Email: myakub[a]indiana.edu

Monika Fryska

Research Assistant

I've worked in the lab for four years, assisting with everything from plant care to data entry to pollen counting.

Emily Lines

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am from Carmel, Indiana and I am a Senior majoring in International Studies and German. I just returned from a semester in Freiburg, Germany.

Jimmy Krantz

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am a junior Biology major, Psychology minor, and Chemistry minor. I am currently thinking of pursuing a career in healthcare (physician or physician's assistant). In my free time I enjoy cooking, reading, exercising, and watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.

Stacey Vosters

STARS Student

I spent last year investigating within-species and between-species variation in cold tolerance of tomato seeds. This year I'm attempting to map this trait using near isogenic lines.

Blake Ballenger

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am a pre-dental student studying history, biology and chemistry. I enjoy showing the tomatoes who is the boss! I also enjoy the discovery/history channel. I may or may not be obsessed with the band "Lights"

Former Lab Members

Amanda Posto

Masters student

While at the Moyle lab, I focused on identifying differential gene expression between partial pollen sterile NILs, partial ovule sterile NILs and the parent, Solanum lycopersicum, the domesticated tomato.

Currently working in the Indiana University Chemistry Department.

Email: aposto[at]indiana.edu

Emily Josephs

Research Associate

While at the Moyle lab, I was investigating within-species variation in reproductive isolation using two RIL populations descended from crosses between domestic and wild tomatoes.

Currently wading knee/waist/neck deep in Trinidad ponds squeezing guppies! Part of an ecology/evolution project in the Reznick lab at UC Riverside

Sarah Josway

Research Associate

While at the Moyle lab, my project was focused on examining the strength and direction of epistasis between introgressions in a population of double introgressed lines (DILs).

Currently working in the Wilkinson lab at University of Maryland.

Sarah Blanchard

Honors Student

Currently in dental school.

Janice Lin

Honors Student

Pursuing an MD/PhD at I.U.P.U.I.

Katie Wolt

Undergrad Research Assistant

Currently putting my tomato-tending skills to use working for a community garden in Olympia, Washington.