Lab Members

Heather Hines, PI
Associate Professor of Biology and Entomology

208 Mueller Lab
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Office: 517 Mueller Lab
Lab: 513, 518 Mueller Lab
Office Phone: 814-863-8830
Lab phone: 814-865-7077
hmh19@psu.edu

Postdoctoral Researchers

Antoine Guiguet

Gall induction mechanisms in gall wasps and other galling insects: Genetics, development, phylogenomicis
apg5659@psu.edu
Antoine’s webpage
518 Mueller Lab

Graduate Students

Elena Gratton

Bee landscape ecology, conservation, and epidemiology
emg5968@psu.edu
518 Mueller Lab

Shelby Kilpatrick

Squash bee comparative morphology and phylogenomics
Shelby’s webpage
Coadvisor: Margarita Lopez-Uribe
skk30@psu.edu

Current Undergraduates

Marena Martinez

Comparative pathogen loads across bumble bee species

Tatiana Terranova

Genetic basis of mimetic coloration in bumble bees

Andy Hess

Distribution of cardenolides in milkweeds and the impact on pollinator visitation

Luke Gasper-Markel

Galls as ecosystem engineers: the community of arthropods occupying Amphibolips galls

Owen Donovan

Finding diagnostic traits among highly mimetic bumble bees

Lab Alumni

Sarthok Rahman (grad student)
Briana Ezray (grad student)
Colin Wright (postdoc)
Li Tian (postdoc)
Patrick Lhomme (postdoc)
Guillaume Ghisbain (Visiting Scholar/Masters Intern, U. Mons, Belgium)
Luca Franzini (grad student)
Elyse McCormick (Technician)
Tracey Baumgarten (Technician)
Claudia Rosales (Technician)

Undergraduates

Margaret Weber
Kylie Warwick
Ashley Heimann
Eris Villalona
Erica Laveaga
Timothy Egner
Sophie Tessier
Casey Carr
Sarah Williams
Carrie Hill
Anna Nixon
Daniel Snellings
Paige Witkowski
Jesse Schneider
Nicole Bracci
Tristan Medina
Daniel Spivack
Rebecca Sommer
Nick MacKnight
Matthew Dowhower
Dianne Lee
Katie Del Guercio
Andrew Walrond
Angela Hoover
Salvatore Anzaldo