MWF People

Matthias W. Foellmer

Evolutionary Ecology
and
Diversity of Spiders


Team Adelphi Fall 2010. From left to right: Elisa Passarella, Justyna Faledysz, Tim Lam, Akeem Hamilton, Joshua Shek, Brian Roberts, Hitesh Jani, Matthias Foellmer, Eilliut Alicea, Andrew Vacca, Nicholas Khayumov, Kapil Khadka, David Stillson, Tasheica Grindley, Wing Li, Taylor Keefe

Current lab members	Projects
Kapil Khadka (MSc candidate)	The adaptive significance of sexual cannibalism in the orb web spider Argiope aurantia
Joshua Shek (MSc candidate)	Quantitative genetics of growth and development in the highly dimorphic orb web spider Argiope aurantia
David Stillson (MSc candidate)	Quantitative genetics of web decoration construction in Argiope aurantia
Andrew Vacca (MSc candidate)	The effect of heavy metal pollution on salt marsh communities
Elisa Passarella (undergraduate research)	The ecology of sexual size dimorphism in spiders – a comparative study
Christopher Serrano (undergraduate research)	Arthropod communities of highly impacted salt marsh systems on Long Island
Wing Li (undergraduate assistant)	Maintenance of spider and food critter populations; assitance with reasearch (weighing, taking pictures for later measurement, keeping track of development, etc)
Eilliut Alicea (undergraduate assistant)
Akeem Hamilton (undergraduate assistant)
Justyna Faledysz (undergraduate assistant)
Tim Lam (undergraduate assistant)
Brian Roberts (undergraduate assistant)
Hitesh Jani (undergraduate assistant)
Nicholas Khayumov (undergraduate assistant)
Tasheica Grindley (undergraduate assistant)
Taylor Keefe (undergraduate assistant)

Past lab members at Adelphi and elsewhere
Team Adelphi Fall 2009. From left to right: Kapilkishor Khadka, Alyssa Brown, Panchajanya Deshpande, Matthias Foellmer, Eilliut Alicea, Wing Li, Akeem Hamilton
Zankhna Mody (undergraduate assistant at Trent University, summer 2009)
Cassandra Shaw (undergraduate assistant at Trent University, summer 2009)
Christopher Powers (MSc thesis summer 2009 "Male Spiders in Pursuit of Females: Does Size Matter?")
Elizabeth Zaleski (graduate assistant, summer 2008)
Bryn Donovan (graduate assistant, summer 2008)
Mary Flauto (undergraduate assistant, summer 2008)
Shane Pratt and Meribeth Stott (undergraduate assistants, summer 2008 at Trent University)
Team Trent 2007 from left to right: - David Pereira (Honors thesis "Does vegetation density affect selection on male morphology during mate search in Argiope trifasciata?") - MF - Michael Marson (Honors thesis "Climbing speed as a function of size in the black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia))" - Brent Hazelwood (undergraduate assistant) - Laura Dunn (undergraduate assistant)
Team SMU 2006: - Andrew Inkpen (Honors thesis "Sex-specific foraging strategies and growth in juveniles of the highly dimorphic orb-web spider Argiope aurantia") - Christopher Ayer (undergraduate assistant) - Jonathan Dykeman (undergraduate assistant)
Team SMU 2005 from left to right: - Nazanin Hooshmandi (undergraduate assistant) - Amy Foster (undergraduate assistant) - Andrew Inkpen (undergraduate research) - MF - Joey Bowden (in front, graduate assistant)