Terry McGlynn, PhD
PI; Terry is into everything that is going on in the lab, for more about him, see this page.
Yume Kamal
MS student; Yume is studying the evolution of intraspecific variabiltiy in near-infrared reflectivity among species with widespread geographic distributions in North America.
Edwin Avelar
MS student; Edwin’s work is investigating how seasonal changes in temperature drive the thermal performance of ant colonies, and how this interacts with proximal thermal conditions at nest sites.
Marivi Angel
Postbac researcher; Marivi is building an understanding of the infrared thermal traits across the phylogenies of ants and birds, which will help us understand phylogenetic constraints on trait evolution and produce a greater understanding of the functional role of reflectivity across the entire solar spectrum in these taxa.
Cassandra Bennett
Undergraduate researcher; Cassandra is a Beckman Scholar investigating the role of infrared thermal reflectivity in the community assembly of ants across elevational gradients.
Interested in joining the lab? Contact Dr. McGlynn by email at tmcglynn [at] csudh.edu. Because CSU Dominguez Hills does not provide tuition waivers, we do not actively recruit Master’s students. (The graduate program at CSUDH has coursework in the evening and is designed to accommodate folks who have work or other commitments during typical business hours.)
If you’re looking for a postdoc, I might want to work on a proposal with you. I’ve mentored two postdocs at CSUDH so far, it’s a particularly good situation if you’re interested in becoming faculty at a PUI. I’m excited about infrared thermal work at the moment, and also have ideas and capacity for ant projects in the tropics building prior work, that can lean toward genomics, plant-insect interactions, or community ecology.