Trevor J. Krabbenhoft
Ph.D. Student, Turner Lab
Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
-0001
Phone: (505) 277-6005
Fax: (505) 277-0304
Email: Krabbent[at]unm.edu
Research Interests
My research employs genetic and morphological techniques toward
understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in fishes. I
am particularly interested in the role environmental heterogeneity
plays in shaping morphological and population genetic characteristics
of fishes, both at the local and regional level. My masters
research at the University of South Carolina looked at the
morphological responses of three riverine fishes to a novel lake
environment using geometric morphometrics. This work was
conducted in
collaboration with Drs. Joe Quattro at
the University of
South Carolina and Mike
Collyer at Iowa State. I am currently working on a Ph.D. in
Dr. Tom
Turner's lab at UNM, where we are investigating the genetic
underpinnings of life history attributes of cyprinid fishes of New
Mexico. This research is aimed at extending 'model' cyprinid
(i.e., Danio rerio, Pimephales promelas) genomic
resources for use in non-model cyprinids (e.g., Hybognathus amarus, Platygobio gracilis, Cyprinella lutrensis).
Ultimately, our goal is to be able to conduct comparative studies on a
genomic scale.