Gregory Thom

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Assistant Professor,  Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University
Curator of Genetic Resources, Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science

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Main hobbies: aquascaping, birdwatching, and fishing.

Andre Moncrieff - Postdoc

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Andre is an ornithologist and evolutionary biologist primarily focused on studying the speciation process in Andean and Amazonian birds. His research broadly falls within the fields of systematics, phylogeography, and population and landscape genomics. In the Thom lab, Andre is using whole-genome resequencing data of Amazonian birds to better understand why different portions of the genome provide different patterns of diffusion of alleles across the landscape.

 

Main hobbies: birding, running, and playing violin.  

Juliana Damasceno - Ph.D. Student​

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Juliana is a Biologist, with a master's degree in Zoology. Her previous studies were mainly focused on biogeography and speciation of Neotropical birds. In the Thom Lab,  she is developing projects that investigate the evolutionary underpinnings of the army-ant-following behavior in Neotropical birds with a focus in the genus Gymnopithys 

Luca Micheli - Ph.D. Student​

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Luca is an ornithologist interested in neotropical birds. His research experience involved the systematics, taxonomy, biogeography, evolutionary biology, and population genomics of South American birds. In Thom Lab, he aims to continue studying the speciation process of neotropical birds with novel genomic techniques.

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Main hobbies: Running, birdwatching, hiking and wild-life photography

Natalia Pérez-Amaya - Visiting Scholar​

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Natalia is a Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her research is focused on the phylogeography and ecomorphology of Neotropical birds. In the Thom Lab, she is evaluating phylogeographic and demographic patterns between disjunct populations of Hemitriccus striaticollis.

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Main hobbies: birdwatching, painting, and knitting.